Serve exercises with eastern and continental grips which is better for beginners improve skills

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out the effect of serve training with eastern and continental grips, which is better for beginners to improve skills to be more effective, efficient and faster to master court tennis serve techniques. The method used is the experimental method. The sample in the study of 24 people, taken from students of Sports Coaching Education Universitas Sebelas Maret in 2023. The training method used is serve exercises with eastern and continental grips that are done twice a week. The population in the study amounted to 24 students, the number of samples divided by 12 students practicing serve with eastern grips and 12 students practicing serve with continental grips. The instrument test uses the Hewitt achievement test. Data analysis technique using paired sample t-test with signification level <.05. Data testing using SPSS software version 25 for windows. The results showed a significant improvement in skills from the results of serve training with eastern and continental grips. There is a difference between serve practice with eastern and continental grips, it is better to serve using eastern grips for beginners to improve their skills, this is followed by a mean value. Serve training with eastern grip had a value before treatment of 10.17 and after treatment of 19.83. Serve training with continental grip has a value before treatment of 9.58 and after treatment of 15.25. This value shows that exercises with eastern grip are more effective, efficient and faster to master court tennis serve techniques.