Left-Handedness in Professional and Amateur Tennis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Loffing, Florian ^a   Hagemann, Norbert ^a   Strauss, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TENNIS; TRAINING;

ATHLETES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; TENNIS;

EID: 84868695268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049325     Document Type: Article

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