Match analysis of elite players during paddle tennis competition

Efecto del género y del resultado final del partido en competiciones profesionales de pádel. [Effect of gender and match outcome on professional padel competition].

“…This result is confirmed by a previous analysis on similar padel competition level (Torres-Luque et al, 2015), where the 17% of all total strokes included a smash (i.e., smash or indirect smash). This prevalence of over-head strokes could be also determined by the execution of antecedent previous wrong lobs (i.e., shorter with respect to the opponent playing position), which could have been performed due to the need of defending against the opponents' attacking close to net by sending the back to the baseline (Muñoz et al, 2017).…”

“…Differences between men and women technical and tactical performances found valuable references from the results of previous studies on professional padel (Sánchez-Alcaraz, 2014b; Torres-Luque et al, 2015). Overall, in terms of absolute values, the mean duration of rallies recorded in this study resulted in line with the results of Sánchez-Alcaraz (2014b) for both genders of players, whereas shorter durations were reported in the study of TorresLuque et al (2015), in which no difference emerged between genders and the mean duration of a rally resulted lower than 10 s. In addition, controversial results emerged by the analysis of , who highlight that 80% of rallies in professional padel matches were solved within the first 11 s. However, for the comparison of performances related to the gender of players, coherently to Sánchez-Alcaraz (2014b), the mean duration of rallies registered during the World Padel Tour 2016 matches resulted strongly longer in women than in men competition (also considering the large ES), despite no effect was reported for the mean duration of rest intervals between rallies.…”

“…Although the nature of situational sports regularly affects the replication of game analyses (Lupo, Minganti, Cortis, Perroni, Capranica, & Tessitore, 2012), and the present findings have been discussed by referring to few and recent studies on technical and tactical aspects of professional padel (Courel-Ibáñez et al, 2015, 2017Sánchez-Alcaraz, 2014b;Torres-Luque et al, 2015), this study represents a valuable contribute for increasing the knowledge of situational sports and for better coaching (Hughes & Franks, 2004).…”

“…Revista internacional de ciencias del deporte, 51(14), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.5232/ricyde2018.05103 close to net (mainly volleys). In padel, volleys get a relevant importance as accounted for the 30% of the total strokes in a game (Torres-Luque et al, 2015); plus, the vast majority of points scored (80%) came from the net area (Courel-Ibáñez et al, 2015). Hence, these differences in the use of volleys between men and female could be related to particular offensive strategies to enhance scoring options by applying spin to vary the depth, angle, height, speed, and bounce of the shot like in tennis (United States Tennis Association, 2004).…”

“…Revista internacional de ciencias del deporte,51(14), 29-41. https://doi.org/10.5232/ricyde2018.05103 31 Furthermore, in another study on professional padel players (Torres-Luque, Ramirez, Cabello-Manrique, Nikolaidis, & Alvero-Cruz, 2015), women reported higher values in real time, rest time, and number of strokes than men, and a different frequency of occurrence related to the percentage of type of strokes (backhand volley, indirect forehand lob, backhand lob) emerged. Hence, the match activity profiles of padel appear to be different in men and women performances.…”