From the laboratory to the courts: understanding and training anticipation and decision-making

Great advancements have been made in recent years as to conditioning racket sport athletes, establishing guidelines for nutritional requirements, and facilitating the mastery of technical skills and tactics. However, in spite of the realisation of the importance of possessing exceptional anticipatory strategies and decision-making skills in situations with tight time constraints and uncertainty of opponent’s intentions, little practical information has been generated from science as to how to improve the ways one might prepare to function most effectively in these situations.