Plantar pressure comparison between running and tennis ground impacts

Tennis is a sport with repeated high-intensity runs and changes of direction, where lower limbs are particularly prone to overuse injuries due to the repetition of large foot impacts with the ground (Abrams et al. 2012). Running shoes geometries and cushioning properties benefited from a lot of research over the last decades. Many advanced technologies were designed and some of them were applied to tennis shoes. However, it is commonly accepted that tennis movements are different from running and few studies investigated the biomechanics of tennis-specific movements and the consequences for tennis shoe design.