The purpose of this article is to emphasise the importance of considering and studying tennis learning, coaching and training programs as dynamic complex systems that will help to develop a scientific paradigm of tennis alternative to the actual existing one. Tennis can be considered as an open, interdependent, dynamic, nonlinear, complex and multi-causal system. In order to try to fully understand tennis and tennis coaching it is important to use a systemic thinking approach. This approach takes into consideration the interaction of all relevant variables for the efficient functioning of the system.
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