The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of plyometric training on the power of lower limbs and speed of tennis players. Participated 11 athletes, 5 were "control group" and 6 "experimental group". The both groups were conducted to training on court and strength training. The abilities investigated were: squat jump, counter movement jump, counter movement jump using the arms, drop jump, broad jump and speed. Shapiro-Wilk test for evaluating the normality and ANOVA two way repeted-measures for evaluating the differences between pretest and posttest, p<0.05. Results comparing pretest and posttest showed a significant improvement in all variables for experimental group, different of the control group. And between control group and experimental, verified no differences to pretest. The plyometric training by 10 weeks induced an performance improvement of the subjects.
Plyometric training; Power; Speed
