comparison of agility by age factor and investigation of relationship with tennis performance

The aim of this study is to compare the agility ability of tennis players according to the age factor and to investigate its relation with tennis performance. in line with this purpose, a total of 60 male tennis athletes competing in the 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16 age categories from different provinces and having national games experience participated voluntarily. in the study, agility t-test was applied to measure the agility values of the participants. the classification scores and rankings of the players are obtained from i-court system of turkish tennis federation. in the assessment of data, kolmogorov-smirnov test, one-way analysis of variance, kruskal wallis h test, spearman correlation analysis were used. according to the analysis results, the agility values of the tennis players were obtained as 13.11 (± 1,04 sec.) for the 11-12 age category, 11.09 (± 1,45 sec.) for the 13-14 age category and 9.15 (± 0,55 sec.) for the 15-16 age category. while there is a negative and statistically moderate relationship (r = -0.760; p <0.001) between agility values and classification scores; a positive and statistically moderate relationship (r = 0.734; p <0.001) was obtained between agility values and classification rankings. there is a negative and statistically strong relationship (r=-0.834; p <0.001) between agility values and age. in addition, it is a found that there is a positive and statistically moderate level correlation (r=0,451; p<0,001) between age and classification scores and also there is a negative and statistically moderate correlation (r=-0,419; p<0,001) between age and classification rankings. as a result, it can be proposed that the classification scores of the athletes with good agility values are high and consequently the classification rankings are low, and agility running times decrease with the increase in the age factor.