The importance of the International Tennis Federation's junior boys' circuit in the development of professional tennis players

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 667-672

  Reid, Machar ^a   Crespo, Miguel ^b   Santilli, Luca ^b   Miley, Dave ^b   Dimmock, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Tennis Development Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Juniors; Tennis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITION; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TENNIS;

ADOLESCENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIETIES; TENNIS;

EID: 33947575033     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410600811932     Document Type: Article

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