Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:1088

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1088

Authors:
Francin Veciana, Montserrat

Abstract:
This study is focused on the female players fighting for a position in the ranking of the professional female players. It’s necessary to know the difficulties of this moment of life in the female players world and, what’s to more important, the reasons to give up the practice. One of the most important objectives of this work is to the reality of female tennis players in Spain. I would like to present a study of the characteristics of the trainings in female players, and discover the efficiency of the professional trainers, with the intention of providing information in this field, for the capacities advance and improvement the sport level. If the results prove it, we will need to conclude with a reflection about the introduction of qualitative variables in the way of preparing the female players. For the development of the research, we will have interviews with technicians that, at this moment, are training female players to boost the jump to the professional field. We have considered the different variables that have a certain influence. We have also taken into account the opinion of active and retired female players of the competition.