Table 1.
Anthropometric characteristics and tennis backgrounds of the female players (n = 12).
Fig 1.
Design of the on-court testing session.
Fig 2.
Analyzed ball placements of the ground strokes in the four different zones (labeled from “A” to “D”) on the tennis court. First, the tennis court was divided into nine zones of equal duration (upper part). Then, the nine zones were summarized into four zones to simplify (lower part). See text for further details.
Table 2.
Exhaustion criteria and main outcomes of the female tennis players (n = 12) during the incremental running tests.
Table 3.
Descriptive data for the external and internal loads, technical-tactical actions, and activity profile of the female tennis players (n = 12) during match play according to the passive, active, and mixed playing strategy conditions.
Fig 3.
Effects of the passive, active, and mixed playing strategy conditions on the external (upper panel) and internal loads (lower panel) in the female tennis players (n = 12) during match play.
The effects are shown as factors of the smallest worthwhile changes. The corresponding effect size thresholds for small (S; ±1-fold), moderate (M; ±3-fold), large (L; ±6-fold), and very large effects (VL; ±10-fold) are also shown. The asterisks *, **, ***, and **** indicate the probabilities that the effects are possibly (≥25%), likely (≥75%), very likely (≥95%), and most likely (≥99.5%) higher or lower than the smallest worthwhile changes. The letter u indicates unclear effects with probabilities of ≥5% that the effects are both higher and lower than the smallest worthwhile changes. See text for further details.
Fig 4.
Effects of the passive, active, and mixed playing strategy conditions on the technical-tactical actions (upper panel) and activity profile (lower panel) in the female tennis players (n = 12) during match play.
The effects are shown as factors of the smallest worthwhile changes. The corresponding effect size thresholds for small (S; ±1-fold), moderate (M; ±3-fold), large (L; ±6-fold), and very large effects (VL; ±10-fold) are also shown. The asterisks *, **, ***, and **** indicate the probabilities that the effects are possibly (≥25%), likely (≥75%), very likely (≥95%), and most likely (≥99.5%) higher or lower than the smallest worthwhile changes. The letter u indicates unclear effects with probabilities of ≥5% that the effects are both higher and lower than the smallest worthwhile changes. See text for further details.