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Area of Science:

  • Sports Science
  • Kinesiology
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Agility is crucial for tennis performance.
  • Existing agility tests often lack tennis specificity or fail to integrate cognitive and physical demands.
  • There is a need for practical, tennis-specific agility assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and evaluate the measurement properties of a novel tennis-specific reactive agility test (TS-RAN).
  • To assess the feasibility and practicality of the TS-RAN test for regular implementation.
  • To compare the TS-RAN test with generic and pre-planned agility tests.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a tennis-specific reactive agility test (TS-RAN).
  • Testing with 32 youth tennis players (10.85 ± 1.50 years).
  • Comparison of TS-RAN with generic and tennis-specific pre-planned agility tests to establish measurement characteristics.

Main Results:

  • The TS-RAN test demonstrated good internal consistency but moderate to good overall reliability, with unsatisfactory within-subject reliability due to performance inconsistency in young participants.
  • The test showed high construct validity, projecting strongly (0.91) onto a single latent dimension primarily explained by tennis-specific agility.
  • The test is highly feasible, requiring no special equipment or setup, making it practical for regular use.

Conclusions:

  • The new tennis-specific reactive agility test (TS-RAN) is feasible and practical for youth tennis players.
  • Further research is required to enhance test-retest reliability and confirm its widespread applicability.
  • The TS-RAN test shows potential for assessing combined physical and cognitive agility in tennis.