Stuart Miller

• International Tennis Federation

All sport events have inherent injury and illness risks for participants. Healthcare services for sport events should be planned and delivered to mitigate these risks which is the ethical responsibility of all sport event organisers. The objective of this paper was to develop consensus-driven guidelines describing the basic standards of services ne...

Objective To identify changes in International Federations’ priorities and the barriers to implementing athlete and global health initiatives. Results should influence the work of the International Federation medical committees, the IOC and the Association of Summer Olympic International Federation. Methods The 28 Summer and 7 Winter International...

Objective To identify areas of priority and activity for international sportsfederations (IFs) with respect to athlete health and safety, and global health. Results serve to direct the work of the Association of Summer Olympic IF Medical and Scientific Consultative Group, the International Olympic Committee and to influence IFs’ planning and priori...

This study aimed to examine player perceptions and biomechanical responses to tennis surfaces and to evaluate the influence of prior clay court experience. Two groups with different clay experiences (experience group, n = 5 and low-experience group, n = 5) performed a 180° turning movement. Three-dimensional ankle and knee movements (50 Hz), planta...

Tennis is a sport characterised by being played on different surfaces: hard court, grass and clay. These surfaces influence the style of play and tennis specific movements. Specifically on clay, most of the common movements performed by players (e.g. accelerating, side stepping and braking), are performed with some level of controlled sliding. In o...

Although many elite sporting events occur in climate-controlled venues, some athletes train and compete in environments that can potentially pose a risk to the athlete's health. In particular, athletes in aquatics, track and field, tennis, football and triathlon can be exposed to extreme heat during competition or while training. The International...

The fight against anti-doping in sport is well known and widespread. Anti-doping organizations exist across the world under the auspices of the World Anti-Doping Agency(WADA).Most such organizations are either responsible for anti-doping at a national level (so-called National Anti-Doping Organizations), or at an international level for a particula...

The reported incidence, severity and nature of injuries sustained in tennis vary considerably between studies. While some of these variations can be explained by differences in sample populations and conditions, the main reasons are related to differences in definitions and methodologies employed in the studies. This statement aims to review existi...

The reported incidence, severity and nature of injuries sustained in tennis vary considerably between studies. While some of these variations can be explained by differences in sample populations and conditions, the main reasons are related to differences in definitions and methodologies employed in the studies. This statement aims to review existi...

This paper contains the recorded shot movements of 13 players in practice conditions at the Wimbledon 2006 Qualifying Tournament. A 2-camera 3D system was used to track the racket and ball for a period of 0.02 seconds for each recorded shot. Custom-written analysis software was used to extract the required co-ordinates from the ball and racket posi...

Tennis is one of the major global sports, with over 75 million participants worldwide. Many more follow the Grand Slams, Davis Cup and Fed Cup events, overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the professional tours, governed and managed by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Sony Ericsson WTA (Women’s Tennis Assoc...

The aim of the study was to explore the role of tennis in the promotion of health and prevention of disease. The focus was on risk factors and diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle, including low fitness levels, obesity, hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis. A literature search was undertake...

We succeeded in obtaining PSP (Pressure-Sensitive Paint) measurements for a rugby ball. It was found that the seam of the ball is the trigger for initiating low pressure. Therefore, a slower spinning ball fluctuates during flight because of the asymmetrical pressure distribution on the sides of the ball. Based on the results from PSP measurements,...

Modern rackets have facilitated a change in playing style from one of technique to one characterised by power and spin. The combination of the increased stiffness of modern rackets and the tendency for tennis balls to have become harder has led to an increased shock transmission from the racket to the player, which is probably a major contributor t...

A series of experiments were carried out in which a spinning tennis ball was projected obliquely at a head clamped racket. In each experiment a different string was used in the racket frame. An automated image analysis algorithm was used to measure the velocity and spin of the ball. It has been found that, for the majority of impacts, the magnitude...

There is a substantial body of scientific research in tennis, the major growth of which began in the late 1970s, around the same time as the introduction of the oversize racket and the subsequent change in playing style that it facilitated. As such, rackets constitute a significant part of the body of research. A second key element of tennis is the...

Equipment is exerting an increasing influence on the nature of tennis. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) Technical Centre was set up to ensure that the challenge and identity of the game is retained, while not discouraging technological innovation. As the physiological characteristics of the player are not under its control, the Technical C...

Basketball shooting is a dynamic, multi-segmental skill requiring considerable accuracy. The scientific and coaching literature advocate replication of movement patterns, although the extent to which this is achieved is not known. This also raises the question of whether inaccurate shots are characterised by greater variability than accurate shots....

Despite considerable research and development into stab-resistant clothing, no data exists which provides valid data for knife-body contact speeds which may be used to ensure that an appropriate and standard protection level is provided. Such data can only be obtained by a quantitative kinematic analysis of the stabbing movement. Two-dimensional vi...

Three-dimensional cinematography (100 Hz) was used to establish the relationship between distance and the kinematics of shooting with respect to playing position in basketball. Fifteen subjects, divided into guards, forwards and centres (all n = 5), performed jump shots from each of three distances: 2.74, 4.57 and 6.40 m from the basket. Increases...

Three-dimensional video techniques (50 Hz) were used to obtain images of basketball jump shots from one of three distances--short range (group 1, n = 5); medium range (group 2, n = 5); long range (group 3, n = 5)--from the basket, as performed by members of the men's quarter-finalist teams at the games of the XVI Universiade in Sheffield in 1991. F...

The aim of this study was to establish the effects of increasing load on selected electromyographic parameters during the parallel squat. Electromyograms were recorded from four lower limb muscles for ten male rugby forwards performing three parallel squats at each of three workloads (60%, 70% and 80% of one-repetition maximum). Significant differe...