Abstract
Many studies have focused on isolated tactical characteristics of tennis and have given less importance to the female game. The goal of this article was to create, based on the existing literature and the observation on the women’s game, the PETF indicator (Pattern success of women 's tennis), which tries to gather the most important tactical needs of the women’s game, and to validate them through questionnaires answered by active players from the WTA circuit and ITF World Tour, seeking to achieve a consensus on the key aspects and analyse their tactical knowledge.
Highlights
Advances in sports technology and science have helped female players to be increasingly faster and stronger
A considerable uniformity was found in the 13 completed questionnaires: some of the players answered thinking in a strategic mindset about how to establish their plans, while others focused more on tactical solutions that they use more often
The answers of the players initially allow to think of two aspects: first, if their perceptions match to that established in the PETF and they are in the right path; second, if they do not correspond with the PETF which implies that they need to adapt to it, or that they are on the right track and there are more important things not included in this context
Summary
Advances in sports technology and science have helped female players to be increasingly faster and stronger This does not mean that just the power of the shot is a factor that determines the success in the women’s game. Aggressive groundstrokes are an integral and essential part of a good player and should be the basis of their tactical pattern, but the use of high bouncing shots, drop shots and approaches to the net cannot be forgotten (Antoun, 2007). Despite sharing these and other characteristics with men's tennis, we know that women's tennis has its peculiarities. Did that importance come to stay? Or will it be solved with more and more power to the point that they will become less frequent again?
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