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Estimate calories burned per set and per match from your body weight, court time and whether you play singles or doubles.
The Tennis Calorie Burn Calculator estimates the energy cost of a set and of a full match from your body weight and time on court, using the MET equation kcal/min = MET x 3.5 x kg / 200. Every intensity it offers is a published entry in the Compendium of Physical Activities: singles at 8.0 METs, doubles at 6.0, general play at 7.3 and non-game hitting drills at 5.0. It is aimed at club players, coaches and anyone matching post-match refuelling to the actual workload of the match.
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Enter the values you already know.
Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.
Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.
Splits the total into calories per set so you can plan changeover fuelling.
Singles, doubles, general play and drills all use Compendium activity codes, not estimates.
Shows what the same court time would have cost in every other tennis format.
About 630 kcal for a 75 kg player in singles and about 470 kcal in doubles. Those come from the Compendium values of 8.0 METs for singles and 6.0 METs for doubles applied to the standard MET equation.
A 40-minute set of singles costs a 75 kg player around 420 kcal, so a three-set match lands near 1,260 kcal. Shorter, one-sided sets of 25 minutes drop that to roughly 260 kcal per set.
Doubles splits court coverage between two players, which cuts running volume considerably. The Compendium reflects that with 6.0 METs for doubles against 8.0 METs for singles — about a 25% lower burn rate for the same time on court.
Enter only the time the set was actually in progress; the published MET values already average in the short changeovers within a set. Long warm-ups or breaks between matches burn far less and would overstate the total if included.
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