Adapted sports at UFSC: an analysis from sports categories by Bruna Barboza Seron, Gabriela Fischer

“…The adapted sports extension projects have been developed in the Sports Center since 1996 and currently offer practices of five adapted modalities: Athletics; Goalball; Wheelchair Handball; Swimming and Wheelchair Tennis. When doing the analysis, it was possible to identify that all the projects to develop actions in the different sports categories. …”
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DESARROLLO DE UN SISTEMA TECNOLÓGICO PARA EL REGISTRO DEL COMPORTAMIENTO DE JUGADORES DE TENIS Y TENIS EN SILLA DE RUEDAS EN SITUACIONES DE RESPUESTA DE REACCIÓN by R. Sabido, J.S. Damas, V. Luis, R. Reina, F.J. Moreno

“…<br />KEY WORDS: Sport simulation, wheelchair tennis, tennis, return to service</p>…”
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The Ecuadorian Paralympic tennis: an approach to the real historical context of its sport evolution/El tenis paralímpico ecuatoriano: un acercamiento al contexto histórico real de... by Roberto Manolo Castro Cevallos

“…The first one applied to five personalities of the Ecuadorian Paralympic tennis among sports leaders and coaches, approaching the historical dimension of the Ecuadorian Paralympic tennis; the second one applied to five elite sportsmen of wheelchair tennis with the dimension of sports anecdotes in the Paralympic tennis. …”
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A Literature Review Informing an Operational Guideline for Inertial Sensor Propulsion Measurement in Wheelchair Court Sports by Jonathan B. Shepherd, Daniel A. James, Hugo G. Espinosa, David V. Thiel, David D. Rowlands

“…Wheelchair court sports (wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, and wheelchair basketball) are no exception, and the use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based inertial measurement unit (IMU) within this domain is one innovation researchers have employed to monitor aspects of performance. …”
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Epidemiological analysis of doping offences in the professional tennis circuit by Maquirriain Javier

“…<it>"Social drugs" </it>misuse constitutes the main problem of doping in tennis. Male and wheelchair tennis players showed higher risk of infringing the doping code than their females and non-handicapped counterparts. …”
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The tennis player in wheel chair: players‘ categories by David Sanz Rivas, Luciano Lazzaris Fernandes, Juan Pedro Fuentes García, Juarez Muller Dias

“…First, some brief references concerning physical disability are included, an expression whose meaning includes wheelchair tennis players, which is defi ned as an individual who, as a consequence ofa congenital or acquired defi ciency, is impeded of accomplishing, with normality, the basic forms of movement. …”
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