PhD student János Péter Tóth gives presentation at prestigious international conference

TF student János Péter Tóth gave a presentation about the effects of different game strategy conditions at the 29th International Congress of the European College of Sport Science in July, while also making useful contacts.

The 29th International Congress of the European College of Sport Science was held in Glasgow between 2 to 5 July. Péter János Tóth, a third-year PhD student of the Hungarian University of Sports Science (TF), participated in the event with several other TF faculty members and students.

"I received valuable feedback on our research from the chairpersons of the section. In my presentation, we investigated the effects of different game strategy conditions - offensive, defensive and mixed - on the external load parameters associated with running and on the impact factors of hitting in elite, age-grade tennis players. I have received positive feedback from other several speakers who have studied similar ball games. They said that this is the future of these sports”, commented János Péter Tóth, the third-year doctoral student of the Department of Sport Games at TF, who is the strength coach of the tennis department of Vasas Pasarét Sports Centre and the Hungarian Davis Cup team, Máté Valkusz.

Péter Tóth also spoke about the role of different microsensors in research and practice.

"In recent years, the use of micro-sensors - GPS/LPS - to measure external loads has received considerable attention in both everyday practice and sports science research. However, most of these studies have investigated these load factors in isolation, whereas most ball games, like tennis, are tactically dominated sports in which tactical decisions, playing style, match location and, among others, court surface strongly influence these parameters, so it is advisable to address all variables in an integrated way in the future."

Péter Tóth hopes that tennis coaches will also be able to put into practice the method currently tested and developed by him and his fellow researchers.

"Fortunately, I have established a good relationship with a researcher at the Faculty of Physical Education at a Korean university. He and his colleagues are conducting tactical analysis using artificial intelligence. They were also interested in our research and research plans at the Department of Sport Games. In addition, in my session I managed to make friends with a leading researcher at the Centre for Human Movement at the University of Salzburg, who, with his colleagues, has developed a proprietary motion analysis sensor in alpine skiing, the software of which could be of interest in our future research and could provide an integrated way to detect external training loads in a way that is intuitive for coaches."

Regarding his plans, he said the following.

"In cooperation with the Department of Kinesiology and the Centre for Exercise Theory and Methodology, we would like to conduct more research on the load of new ball games this year. As a result of the collaboration between the departments, we hope to be able to work in a multidisciplinary way, which will allow us to conduct studies, the results of which can be easily translated into practice, taking these sports to a higher level."

It is also an exciting question whether the domestic tennis coaching community will be open to the results and achievements of sports science research.

"Unfortunately, my experience is not very good so far, but fortunately, the Department of Sport and Sport Games takes our research into account and how performance monitoring can be used, and incorporates it into the curriculum. Coaches graduated at our university are open to the results of sports science research. Our role is to communicate the knowledge we have gained to coaches in an understandable and consumable form."

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