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T1 Does carbohydrate supplementation enhance tennis match play performance?
A1 Vitosovic Gomes, Rodrigo
A1 Dario Capitani, Caroline
A1 Ugrinowitsch, Carlos
A1 Christopher Zourdos, Michael
A1 Fernández Fernández, Jaime
A1 Mendez Villanueva, Alberto
A1 Saldanha Aoki, Marcelo
A2 Educacion Fisica y Deportiva
K1 Educación Física
K1 Match Analysis
K1 Glycemia
K1 Performance
AB Background: Carbohydrate (CHO) ingestion may be an interesting approach to avoid significant decrement to thetennis match performance. The aim of the present investigation was to assess the effects of CHO supplementationon tennis match play performance.Methods: Twelve young tennis players (18.0 ± 1.0 years; 176 ± 3.4 cm; 68.0 ± 2.3 kg; body fat: 13.7 ± 2.4%) withnational rankings among the top 50 in Brazil agreed to participate in this study, which utilized a randomized,crossover, double blind research design. The experiment was conducted over a 5-day period in which each playercompleted two simulated tennis matches of a 3-hour duration. The players received either a CHO or a placebo(PLA) drinking solution during simulated tennis matches. Athlete’s performance parameters were determined byfilming each match with two video cameras. Each player was individually tracked for the entire duration of thematch to measure the following variables: (1) games won; (2) rally duration; (3) strokes per rally; (4) effective playingtime (%); (5) aces; (6) double faults; (7) first service in; (8) second service in; (9) first return in and (10) second return in.Results: There were no differences between trials in any of the variables analyzed.Conclusions: CHO supplementation did not improve tennis match play performance under the present experimentalconditions.
PB Informa UK Limited
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/19223
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/19223
NO Gomes, R. V., Capitani, C. D., Ugrinowitsch, C., Zourdos, M. C., Fernandez-Fernandez, J., Mendez-Villanueva, A., & Aoki, M. S. (2013). Does carbohydrate supplementation enhance tennis match play performance?. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 10, 1-7.
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 16-may-2024