Improving speed motor skills in women’s football-tennis for elite players

. Football-tennis is a sport that appeared in 1922, and in 1940, the first official regulation was issued. It can be an individual or team sport with single, double or triple events, plus the mixed doubles and triples, which is played by both men and women. Football-Tennis is not recognised nationally and globally as other sports, therefore, in most cases, no emphasis is placed on the physical, technical and tactical training where to take into account the regularisation of training depending on the competitive period in which athletes are at a specific time. The study was conducted on elite athletes representing the Romanian team in international competitions and having a competitive experience of 10-15 years. The motor ability tested in this paper was the speed of movement, which was measured with the help of the OptoJump device. The test applied checked the running speed over the distance of 5 meters. Two tests were performed by players as follows: an initial one, which aimed to determine the level of manifestation of their speed of movement, and a final one, which aimed to determine the level of progress following the application of the centralised training programme. The main objective was to find out: step length, flight time, contact time, flight phase, flat foot, propulsion phase, steps/m, height, angle of inclination and speed in m/s.