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Thank you for your continued support of STMS as we move to an exciting new year of medicine, science and tennis! WTA - "Game, Set, Health" The SE WTA Tour has a new webpage called "Game, Set, Health". The purpose is to provide tennis fans and the general public with information on a range of health issues often encountered in the sport of tennis. It is updated twice monthly with new articles and facts. This website includes information written by the SS&M/ PRO UT team on a variety of topics that fall under categories such as Nutrition & Hydration, Psychology, Fitness & Conditioning and HealthCare. Click here to view this new and exciting webpage.
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In the last two decades, physical training and competitive opportunities have increased dramatically in junior, collegiate and professional tennis. This arose due to a multitude of factors, but much of it has stemmed from an increase in knowledge and understanding of scientifically based training programs focused on improving performance. As this focus on performance has increased, the area of recovery has received relatively limited focus. Recovery is a multi-faceted paradigm focusing on recovery from training—session to session, day to day and week to week. Recovery is also vitally important during training as well as in competition between matches and between days during multi-day tournaments. As more information is needed in the area of tennis specific recovery, the Sport Science Committee of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) sponsored an extensive evidence-based review of the available literature related to eight distinct areas of tennis-specific recovery. These eight areas are: 
