Constitutional aspects of sports mastery in tennis

The aim of the study was to determine somatic indices of highly-qualified tennis players (men and women) correlate at the highest level of connections with the level of sports mastery and training experience, to settle the question whether these connections are of dimorphic character. The study involved Polish national team tennis representatives. The female players' age (n=10) oscillated between 16-20 (18.1±1.4), and the training experience - 8-12 years (10.5±1.8). The male players' age, on the other hand, between 16-22 (18.5±2.17), and the training experience - 8-15 years (10.5±2.66). 20 basic somatic features were measured. It was found that the connection of the studied somatic features with the level of sports mastery and the training experience of Polish tennis representatives are of heterogeneous and dimorphic character.