University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Center for Human Movement Sciences, The Netherlands.
Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport, School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Sports Biomech. 2024 Mar;23(3):370-391. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2020.1840617. Epub 2021 Jan 12.
The number of wheelchair tennis players is rising internationally, yet from a scientific perspective little is known about wheelchair tennis performance. Wheelchair tennis is more complex compared to other wheelchair court sports, due to the wheelchair/racket interaction. The purpose of this narrative review was to gain insight into the influence of wheelchair configuration, i.e., the individual set-up of a wheelchair, on wheelchair tennis performance, more specifically on wheelchair mobility performance and propulsion technique. Wheelchair propulsion while holding a racket has had little attention in both the wheelchair mobility performance and wheelchair propulsion technique area. It is shown that the propulsion technique and wheelchair mobility performance are negatively affected by the racket. Based on the current literature, the influence of wheelchair configuration on wheeling performance in wheelchair tennis can mainly be described from a broader wheelchair court sport perspective, due to the lack of specific publications about wheelchair tennis. In the future more research should be conducted on wheeling performance and wheelchair configuration in wheelchair tennis, to attain a more proper scientific foundation for optimising wheelchair tennis performance.
参与轮椅网球运动的人数在国际上不断增加，但从科学角度来看，人们对轮椅网球的表现知之甚少。与其他轮椅场地运动相比，轮椅网球更为复杂，这是因为轮椅/球拍的相互作用。本综述的目的是深入了解轮椅配置（即轮椅的个性化设置）对轮椅网球表现的影响，特别是对轮椅机动性表现和推进技术的影响。在轮椅机动性表现和轮椅推进技术领域，持拍推进的研究很少。研究表明，球拍会对推进技术和轮椅机动性表现产生负面影响。根据目前的文献，由于缺乏专门针对轮椅网球的出版物，轮椅配置对轮椅网球挥拍性能的影响主要可以从更广泛的轮椅场地运动角度来描述。未来应该在轮椅网球的挥拍性能和轮椅配置方面进行更多的研究，为优化轮椅网球表现提供更合适的科学基础。
