Dont get me wrong guys and ladies have issues. But you dont hear about as many of these types of injuries in tennis, as you do in Soccer, baseball, basketball ect. Am I imagining this? Guys and ladies seem to go down with ACL/MCLs much more often in these other sports. Is It more impact related? Or movement related? Or am just imagining things.
Are serious knee injuries less common in tennis than other major sports?
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Lleytonstation
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I'm guessing the sliding aspect.
Cleats are supposed to grip in, and basketball is not having sliding players.
Cleats are supposed to grip in, and basketball is not having sliding players.
socallefty
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Many knee injuries are acute/accidental and happen in contact sports or jumping sports. In tennis, the knee injuries are more often chronic related to arthritis and tendinitis rather than acute injuries.
Rosstour
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But the kicker is that most ACL and Achilles injuries are non contact. So there is something else at play
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If tennis got rid of hardcourts, i bet there'd be even less knee injuries, and careers would go longer 
socallefty
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Jumping sports! You leave the ground, you are likely to land funny.
Also synthetic surfaces that grab and hold onto your feet are likely to cause non-contact acute injuries. I played on carpet recently on vacation and never felt so unsafe on a tennis court in my life as my feet were ‘sticking’ making every quick change-of-direction move feel risky.
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Yea I was gonna say that. I mean you see especially in soccer guys and gals go down all the time just on movement alone. It is interesting.
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Bride of Alcaraz
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Australian Rules football has the most knee injuries that i've ever seen, and there is a huge amount of jumping in it, and its jumping on weird angles too.
Whereas at least basketball is more calculated jumping, most of the time...
Whereas at least basketball is more calculated jumping, most of the time...
Lleytonstation
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Most non contact injuries in football and the NFL are from cleats sticking and body momentum going the other way. See it all the time when they are trying to make a cut.
MasturB
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Two of the biggest knee injuries of recent memory are Fred and John Martin. I think Stanley also had knee surgery as well as Joe Wilford.
Fred was lucky the surgery in 2016 extended his career a few years. Unfortunately the 2020and 2021 surgeries could not.
Konik_1982
Rookie
I played soccer competitively for 20 years and quit after I had the ACL torn. Indeed, it was non contact, did it by myself by a certain movement when switching direction while having weight on one leg. As I was watching later after the surgery a few matches with crutches as a spectator, this exact movement does a player many times per halftime...but not in tennis. I can (luckily) play without limitations, don't need any bandage so I'm happy for this.
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