Beach tennis: possibilities in school physical education

Abstract

Beach Tennis is a sport that is currently being widely publicized. Recent research on the subject demonstrates the diversity that sport can provide in its practice. This research aims to analyze the production of knowledge about Beach Tennis and possibilities of practice in physical education classes in the school environment. The methodology used was a survey of the state of knowledge about Beach Tennis. The databases chosen for the analysis were: Scielo; CAPES periodicals; LILACS and Google Scholar. The descriptor used was “Beach Tennis”, the chosen articles were from the last five years and written in Portuguese, a total of six researches were chosen. The results provided a greater production in the year 2021, with public institutions having the highest level of production, in addition to the fact that re-search is more related to the practice of sport and its fundamentals. The conclusion of the re-search established that there is little production in the area of Beach Tennis in relation to the school environment, mainly related to the content of Physical Education at School and this entails a limitation, in which it was observed that the practice in this environment is scarce and most of the researches are related to the benefits provided to this sport.