Racket Sport Dynamics
A special issue of Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology (ISSN 2411-5142). This special issue belongs to the section "Athletic Training and Human Performance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 550
Special Issue Editor
Interests: performance analysis; health; physical education; racket sports; training methodology
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Dear Colleagues,
The popularity of racket sports games can be observed across the world. The popularity of and elite performance in the most famous racket sports are reaching new milestones. In tennis, we are witnessing an incredible battle between the top players. Table tennis and badminton are amongst the highlights of the Olympics. Never before have there been so many squash players from so many different countries among the world’s best. Lastly, the popularity of padel is breaking all records and spreading rapidly around the world. The commonality between all the above games is the fact that they are easy to enjoy. On the other hand, they are also complex sports, where performance at the highest level depends on a number of parameters and their synergistic effects.
The aim of this research topic is to encourage researchers in the field to publish their latest findings on the factors that have a significant impact on either the popularity of the sport (e.g., a healthy lifestyle) or the achievement of excellence in an elite environment. These include sociological, physiological and psychological aspects, as well as appropriate physical conditioning and planning in the training process and performance analysis in terms of biomechanics (techniques), tactics or movement.
Contributors are encouraged to submit original research and systematic reviews related to methods, curriculum instruction and pedagogy, data reports, technologies and codes.
Dr. Bernardino Javier Sánchez-Alcaraz Martínez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- racquet sports
- tennis
- padel
- squash
- badminton
- sociology
- physiology
- psychology
- performance
- training
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