0 the level of fitness of a football or rugby player who regularly plays in games against other teams: --
Caskey had been badly injured so was short of match fitness.
Rigg managed to recover to match fitness within six weeks, having had a plate put in to help speed up the healing process.
He also missed the first month of the season because of a lack of match fitness.
Between games there is the opportunity to gain match fitness points by completing training exercises.
This would prove to be his most successful season in terms of match fitness.
It took ten months for him to regain match fitness.
He struggled for match fitness, and missed the whole of the 200001 and 200102 seasons due to knee problems.
Overall he was restricted to 21 appearances in 200001, and so underwent surgery on an ankle injury to try to regain match fitness.
