March 25, 2026 · British journal of sports medicine · DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2025-110713

Injury risk and its relationship with biological maturation among 100 junior tennis athletes: a 15-year retrospective analysis

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The authors aimed to investigate the relationship between injury risk and biological maturation in junior tennis athletes over a 15-year period. They found that injury incidence and burden varied significantly across different maturity phases, with boys experiencing the highest risk around their peak height velocity, while girls faced greater risk after this phase. The study emphasizes the need for individualized, maturation-specific, and sex-specific injury prevention strategies in junior tennis.

Yoshimasa Saigo, Daichi Morikawa, Yoshiaki Itoigawa, Hirohisa Uehara, Takayuki Kawasaki, Takefumi Kaketa, Kenta Shibuya, Hironori Tsurukami, Fumitoshi Hatae, Yasutaka Yoshimura, Kazuki Yoshida, Yoshihiko Yoshida, Muneaki Ishijima

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