The relationship between court surface and tactics in tennis using a computerized scorebook.

Takahashi, Hiroo; Wada, Tomohito; Maeda, Akira; Kodama, Mitsuo; Nishizono, Hidetsugu; Kurata, Hiroshi

doi:10.1080/24748668.2006.11868369

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“…This is probably associated with the experience of the players with the bounce of the ball on the fast grass surface, which reduces the loss of speed in the horizontal direction only minimally and for which a lower bounce angle is typical; it also shortens the time of contact when the ball is returned (Brody, 1987(Brody, , 2003Brody et al, 2002;Cross, 2001Cross, , 2002Lees, 2003;Miller, 2006;O'Donoghue & Ballantyne, 2004). Higher service speeds throughout the game have been indirectly verified by the research results (Takahashi et al, 2006) that have found the shortest time between service and return on WIM on the grass surface compared to other GSTs (0.71 s on WIM grass vs 0.73 s on hard surface and 0.91 s on clay).…”

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“…The court surface influences the direction, speed and spin of a tennis ball after impact (Brody, 1987;Brody, Cross, & Lindsey, 2002;Lees, 2003;Miller, 2006), as well as the player's movement and the probability of an injury in extreme movement situations (Barnett & Pollard, 2007;Cross, 2006;Dragoo & Braun, 2010), timemotion of players (Galé-Ansodi, Castellano, & Usabiaga, 2016) and the duration of the time serve and strokes (Takahashi et al, 2006). The quality of the court surface affects the duration of rallies and serving strategies (O'Donoghue & Ballantyne, 2004;O'Donoghue & Ingram, 2001;Unierzyski & Wieczorek, 2004).…”

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Association between serve speed and court surface in tennis

Vaverka

Hendl

Nykodým

et al. 2018

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

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The aim of the study was to determine whether the serve speed differs between Grand Slam tournaments (GSTs) played on different court surfaces. The study was carried out for both men and women (n = 70-98) who participated in four of the GSTs in 2008, 2012 and 2016 (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open). The following serve-speed parameters were obtained from the official GST websites: the speed of the fastest serve (FS), the average speed of the first serve in a given match (S1) and the average speed of the second serve in a given match (S2). Statistical analysis was performed using a mixed linear model procedure (NCSS 2007, Keysville, UT). FS varied irregularly, but it did not differ significantly between GSTs in the three observed years. The values of S1 and S2 for both men and women were highest in WIM in all three years, and were significantly higher than the other variables measured at the other GSTs. An association between serve speed and tennis court surface was confirmed only for S1 and S2 at fast grass court surfaces at WIM in the period 2008-2016.

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Association between serve speed and court surface in tennis

Vaverka

Hendl

Nykodým

et al. 2018

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport

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“…When playing with the modified ball, rally speed was 0.62 shots/s compared to 0.58 shots/s when using the normal ball. Research on professional adult matches found that average rally speed varied between 0.85 and 1.04 shots/s among the grand slam tournaments (Takahashi et al, 2006); hence, it appears that the use of the modified ball allowed children to rally at speeds that more closely resembled those expected of adult matches. While there is some evidence that the modification of other constraints (i.e.…”

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The effect of ball compression on the match-play characteristics of elite junior tennis players

Kachel

Buszard

Reid

2014

Journal of Sports Sciences

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The purpose of this article was to examine the effect of equipment scaling, through the modification of tennis ball compression, on elite junior tennis players (aged 10 years) within a match-play context. The two types of ball compressions that were compared were the standard compression (the normal ball) and 75% compression (termed the modified ball). Ten boys and 10 girls participated in the study. Participants were stratified into pairs based on their Australian Age Ranking and gender. Each pair played two two-set matches: one match with standard compression balls and one match with modified balls. The characteristics of each match were analysed and compared. The results showed that the use of the modified ball increased rally speed, allowed players to strike the ball at a lower (more comfortable) height on their groundstrokes and increased the number of balls played at the net. Ball compression had no effect on the relative number of winners, forehands, backhands, first serves in and double faults. The results are discussed in relation to skill acquisition for skilled junior tennis players.

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“…We can collect the inter-shot time data (Takahashi et al, 2006) on the computerized scorebook for tennis and, therefore, two types of inter-shot time of serve are adopted as indicators. Inter-shot time of serve means time intervals between impact of serve and the return when the serve was in.…”

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“…One match contained two players' performance, so it follows that forty-eight kinds of performance are analyzed. The computerized scorebook for tennis (Takahashi et al, 2006) was used for data collection.…”

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The Relationships between the Normative Performance Profiles and the Winning of Sets in Women's Singles Matches of Professional Tennis

Takahashi

Murakami

Kitamura

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Int. J. Sport Health Sci.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the normative performance proˆles proposed by O'Donoghue (2005) and the winning of sets in actual women's singles matches of professional tennis. Twenty-four matches from 2010 and 2011 US Open tournaments were analyzed with 13 performance indicators. The normative performance percentiles were calculated and the total sums of percentile values were compared between winners and losers. As a result, the normative performance percentiles are obtained from actual match data. The normative performance percentiles in current study show similar tendencies compared with O'Donoghue's (2005) data. The normative performance proˆles in each match show diŠerence of performance between winners and losers of sets visually. The diŠerence of the total sum of percentile values between winner and loser signiˆcantly depends on types of set scores. That is, large diŠerence in set scores show large diŠerence of the total sum of percentile values. It suggests that the total sum of percentile values have large diŠerence between winners and losers, resulting in an overwhelming victory. It is concluded that the diŠerence of the total sum of percentile values have positive correlation with diŠerence of set scores between winners and losers.

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The relationship between court surface and tactics in tennis using a computerized scorebook.

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Association between serve speed and court surface in tennis

Association between serve speed and court surface in tennis

The effect of ball compression on the match-play characteristics of elite junior tennis players

The Relationships between the Normative Performance Profiles and the Winning of Sets in Women's Singles Matches of Professional Tennis

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