THE INFLUENCE OF COORDINATIVE ABILITIES ON MOVEMENT DURING TENNIS MATCHES

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the importance of coordinative abilities in the training plan of 10-12 year old tennis players, and whether through the methods and means chosen for this experiment an optimisation of tennis specific movements is observed. The ability to combine different forms of movement allows the player to better and faster adapt to the different surfaces they have to play on. In most cases, tennis movement is the combined result of and is constantly conditioned by the court area, technical processes and the player’s experience. The results of this study show that the development of coordinative abilities positively influences the player’s ability to combine the different types of movements specific to tennis matches

Keywords

• tennis
• specific displacements
• coordinative abilities