Exercise-induced homeostatic perturbations provoked by singles tennis match play with reference to development of fatigue

A Mendez-Villanueva… - British journal of sports …, 2007 - bjsm.bmj.com
This review addresses metabolic, neural, mechanical and thermal alterations during tennis
match play with special focus on associations with fatigue. Several studies have provided a …

Quantifying the nature of anticipation in professional tennis

C Triolet, N Benguigui, C Le Runigo… - Journal of Sports …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
We quantify the nature and frequency of anticipation behaviours in professional tennis using
video coding of incidents where the time delay between the opponent's stroke and the …

Do expert tennis players actually demonstrate anticipatory behavior when returning a first serve under representative conditions? A systematic review including quality …

C Aviles, JA Navia, LM Ruiz, ÓM de Quel - Psychology of Sport and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives The present article aims to (i) critically review and classify the studies on the
tennis serve return by the degree of representativeness of the experimental task design,(ii) …

A split-step shortens the time to perform a choice reaction step-and-reach movement in a simulated tennis task

R Uzu, M Shinya, S Oda - Journal of Sports Sciences, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
In tennis, a “split-step” is a small vertical jump or hop that is commonly used as a preparatory
motion for a lateral step when receiving the ball. The purposes of the present study were (1) …

Relationship between split-step timing and leg stiffness in world-class tennis players when returning fast serves

S Mecheri, G Laffaye, C Triolet, D Leroy… - Journal of sports …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated split-step timing when returning serves and whether this timing is
related to neuromechanical capabilities in world-class tennis players. In Experiment 1, the …

Perception of affordances for striking regulates interpersonal distance maneuvers of intermediate and expert players in kendo matches

M Okumura, A Kijima, Y Yamamoto - Ecological Psychology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In daily life and in many sports, people must adjust interpersonal distance between
themselves and others based on task constraints and goals. For example, in martial arts …

The spatiotemporal control of expert tennis players when returning first serves: A perception-action perspective

JA Navia, C Avilés, M Dicks… - Journal of Sports …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of the current experiment was to examine the spatiotemporal control of expert tennis
players while executing first service returns within a representative experimental setting. We …

Effects of neuromuscular function and split step on reaction speed in simulated tennis response

MJJ Nieminen, JM Piirainen, JA Salmi… - European journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to examine whether split step (small hop before step) would
be more beneficial than no-split condition in simulated tennis response situation. In addition …

Split-step timing of professional and junior tennis players

A Filipcic, B Leskosek, T Filipcic - Journal of Human Kinetics, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The purpose of the study was to determine the timing of a split-step in three categories of
tennis players in four groups of strokes. Subjects were divided into three groups: male and …

Movement-production strategy in tennis: A case study

E Gillet, D Leroy, R Thouvarecq, F Mégrot… - The Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Gillet, E, Leroy, D, Thouvarecq, R, Mégrot, F, and Stein, JF. Movement-production
strategy in tennis: a case study. J Strength Cond Res 24 (7): 1942-1947, 2010-The present …