Category
Racquet Sports
Document Type
Paper
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between end-effector (tennis racket) performance and postural balance across 4 serving locations. Eleven right-handed experienced tennis players participated in this study. Participants completed 10 successful tennis serves each to 4 serving locations. 12 optoelectronic cameras at 200 Hz (BTS bioengineering, Milan, Italy) were used to collect whole-body kinematic data. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) with regression was used to identify the relationship between postural balance control (extrapolated centre of mass displacement and changes in arms/trunk angular momentum in forward/backward direction; 1D data) and end-effector performance (maximum racket forward velocity, 0D data) across the four serving locations. The results showed no systematic relationship between postural balance control mechanisms and end-effector performance across 4 different serving locations. It was concluded that serving to different locations likely involves different balance control mechanisms to adjust for target-specific serve technique constraints. For practical application, we found no evidence that balance control and end-effector performance are tightly related within elite tennis serve performance and that these could be trained separately.
Recommended Citation
Jamkrajang, Parunchaya; Limroongreungrat, Weerawat; Robinson, Mark; and Vanrenterghem, Jos
(2022)
"THE ROLE OF TARGET LOCATION ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN POSTURAL BALANCE MECHANISMS AND END-EFFECTOR PERFORMANCE IN THE TENNIS SERVE,"
ISBS Proceedings Archive: Vol. 40:
Iss.
1, Article 73.
Available at:
https://commons.nmu.edu/isbs/vol40/iss1/73
