Injury risk and its relationship with biological maturation among 100 junior tennis athletes: a 15-year retrospective analysis

Injury incidence and burden varied across APHV-based maturity phases and differed by sex, with the highest injury risk observed around APHV in boys and after APHV in girls. The wide interindividual range in APHV (4.5 years) highlights the importance of individualised, maturation-specific and sex-specific injury prevention strategies in junior tennis athletes.