Weiwei Zhu; Yuening Li; Ying Yao & Ping Gao

This study tested and analyzed the body morphology, sport quality parameters, and characteristics of Chinese outstanding young tennis players. Twenty Chinese outstanding young tennis players were used as the study subjects. Their body morphology parameters such as age, height, weight, body fat percentage, and BMI, and sport quality parameters such as bench press, squat absolute strength, grip strength, vertical jump, medicine ball side throw, Yo-Yo run, 10-meter sprint, spider run, hexagonal jump, and seated forward bending were tested and analyzed in comparison with international outstanding young tennis players of the same age group— comparative analysis. The results showed that outstanding Chinese young tennis players were slightly lower in height, slightly lighter in weight, and comparable in body fat percentage and BMI but had more years of training and had relatively better performance in deep squats and backhand side medicine ball throw. However, the performance of bench press, grip strength, forehand side throws medicine ball, spider run, hexagonal jump, vertical jump, seated forward bending, as well as the performance of men's 10-meter sprint and women's Yo-Yo run was lower than the international level of the same age.

KEY WORDS: Youth; Tennis; Body morphology; Strength and Conditioning; Physical qualities.

ZHU, W.; LI, Y.; YAO, Y. & GAO, P. Physical fitness parameters of Chinese outstanding young tennis players. Int. J. Morphol., 43(4):1376-1381, 2025.