2025, Vol. 12, Issue 6, Part A

Background: Competitive tennis athletes is a mixture of aerobic and anaerobic skills such as speed, agility and power it also characterized by 300-500 explosive efforts over a match that may last up to six hour.1 It is clear that the player must be conditioned to meet the specific aerobic, strength and explosive power demands of these matches in order to maintain the required work rate over such an extended period.2 For better performance the player has to be trained systematically in various aspects such as physical, physiological and skill performance factors. Since the competition grows up at the advance level, training methods are being given a serious view. This study is intended to find out the effect of the tennis specific training package on the selected physical, physiological and skill performance variables of amateur level tennis players.

Methodology: After preparation of study protocol, Ethical clearance was obtained from IEC (No:63 players were screened as per eligibility criteria of the study. Total 44 participants were selected and they were randomized into Group A (n=22) and Group B (n=22) after their consent. Group A received TSCP 3 sessions per week for 12 weeks. Group B continued their regular exercise program.

Result and Data analysis: The Shapiro-Wilk test indicated that the data were normally distributed (p<0.05). Therefore, a one way ANOVA was conducted to analyse both within group and between group differences, Experimental group showed significant improvement on Anaerobic power (p<0.001), fatigue index (p<0.05), Aerobic Capacity (P<0.001) Agility (P<0.05), Speed (p<0.001), Flexibility (p<0.001).

Conclusion: Both the study groups showed improvement in selective fitness variables. On comparison between groups Tennis specific conditioning program (TSCP) was estimated to be more significant over the regular exercises when implemented for 12 weeks. By appropriately combining and utilizing these training methods, the physical capabilities and sports performance of adolescent tennis players can be comprehensively optimized.