What happens when the demands placed on an athlete start to outpace their ability to recover?
Stephen Smith joins Georgia Tolley on Dubai Eye LIVE to discuss the growing challenge of managing workload and injury risk in professional tennis, and why simply looking at the number of tournaments only tells part of the story.
Listen to the conversation to explore:
- Whether the issue is calendar length or the compression of competition and recovery windows
- How data can show when an athlete is trending toward higher injury risk
- What tennis can learn from sports already running injury surveillance at scale
Hear Stephen’s full perspective on how workload and injury data could help tennis make more informed decisions around athlete health and performance.
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