Tennis requires a complex interaction of technical, tactical and psychological component as well several physical demand such as strength, agility, power, reaction and neuromuscular coordinating. The importance of technical and tactical requirements for tennis performance put a limitation on planning weekly physical sessions.

Weekly training volume must be adjusted correspondingly with respective physical conditioning volume remaining comparable low. Therefore, it’s a big challenge for players to combine both physical training with on-court technical and tactical training.

Tennis is classified as intermittent exercise, with alternate short bouts of high intensity exercise and short bouts of recovery. Typically, in average a tennis match is often more than an hour, and can prolonged up to 5 hours (elite levels).

The modern game of tennis evolved from primary technical sport in which sport-specific technical skill like racket and ball handling skills, as well as stroke skill as serving were predominant wining factors to more dynamic and explosive sport characterized by higher stroke and serve velocities, requires notably higher physical demands.

As a tennis player, regardless level of playing, you often travel for competition which make it harder to work on your physical condition which we have seen the importance of it in above, below picture will give you more illustrated summary.