All data were analyzed using the statistical package
SPSS for Macintosh v.25.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, United States). A Kolgomorov-Smirnov test was used to test the normality of the distribution of the data and it indicated that it is non-parametric. Then, a descriptive analysis was performed to obtain information on the number of times the categories of each study variable occurred (mean, standard deviation, median, maximum, and minimum).
Next, inferential analyzes were carried out to analyze the differences between the anxiety factors and the self-confidence with the independent variables result (winner/loser), ranking (higher/lower), seed (seeded/non-seeded), round (first round, quarter-final, semi-final, final). Mann–Whitney’s U and Kruskal Wallis’s H tests were used. A
p value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant.
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