The Effect of the Tennis Technical Training on Coordination Characterictics

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of tennis training on balance and hand-eye coordination. We also tried to determine the speed difference of coordination evolution in people who had not previously played ball sports compared with people who had. There were two groups on our research. The first group consisted of 17 male university students who had already played a ball sport aged 22,11 ± 0,98 year. We chose the subjects by searching for athletes who had trained for a sport branch other than tennis at least 3 days a week for more than 2 years. The second group consisted of 15 male university students who had not previously played a ball sport aged 20,46 ± 1,60 year. We gave each subject eight weeks of tennis training, twice a week, 2 hours per day. No special formative practices concerning balance or coordination were given to the subjects. The subjects were tested with the Flamingo Balance Test, Hand eye coordination test and Tennis Ability Test. The tests were carried out at the beginning (4 th hour), the middle (16 th hour) and the end of our study (36 th hour). By statistical analysis of the results of the tests, we can say that for Flamingo Balance Test, recessive hand-eye coordination test and Tennis Ability Test there was a significant difference between the first evaluation and the third evaluation for both groups (p<0,05). Moreover, learning acceleration between 1 st and 2 nd (p<0,05) evaluation were greater than 2 nd and 3 rd one (p>0,05). This result supports 2 nd purpose of the study. Accordingly, their learning improvement was slowdown in Recessive Hand-eye Coordination and Tennis Ability Tests both of groups.

Coordination Exercise for 10 Year Old Beginner Tennis Players

“…Moreover, to be able to see the movement of the ball and make a deadly stroke towards the opponent, it is necessary to have good eye-hand coordination. This is in line with Sahan and Erman (2009) that as the way the ball impacts the racket and the ball speed can change, the hand-eye coordination gets more important.…”

“…The duration and the level of attention and concentration can be observed as being important factors in the game of tennis. In principle, if coordination is carried out more seriously with high concentration, it can be handled well since the eye-hand coordination has key role to success in tennis (Sahan and Erman, 2009). Moreover, to be able to see the movement of the ball and make a deadly stroke towards the opponent, it is necessary to have good eye-hand coordination.…”

Investigating the Asymmetric Bimanual Coordination Differences in Male and Female Athletes in Ball and Non-ball Sports

“…The better performance of ball sports athletes compared to non-ball sports athletes in performing asymmetric bimanual coordination skills was another result of this study, which can be related to years of practice and experience working with both hands and balls in the ball sports group. Also, the task arranged in this study required high coordination between hand and eye movements, which in various studies it has been confirmed that ball exercises have a positive effect on the eye and hand coordination [41]; therefore, one of the possible reasons for the superiority of the bimanual coordination skills of the ball group can be attributed to the stronger coordination between eyes and. Finally, due to the high importance of bimanual coordination skills in sports success [43], it is expected that sports coaches, especially in the education of younger ages, pay attention to this critical issue.…”

Investigating the Role of Ipsilateral and Contralateral Eye-Hand Dominance in ATP Qualification and Tennis Serve Performance of Professional Tennis Players

“…To the best of our knowledge, despite a few researches who mentioned eye movements when tossing the ball (Knudson et al, 1994) and the eye hand coordination while hitting the ball (Sahan & Erman, 2009), there are no many studies investigating eye hand dominance in tennis (Ziagkas, Mavvidis, Grouios, Laios, 2017). The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ipsilateral and contralateral eye hand dominance in ATP qualification and in tennis serve performance.…”