Abstract
Abstract The relationship between ball velocity and playing ability in tennis was investigated. Subjects were 40 freshman men randomly chosen from beginning tennis classes at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The class met three periods a week for 10 weeks. The traditional method for beginning tennis was used to teach ground strokes, volleys, serve, and the combination of these strokes into competitive play. During the sixth week the Broer-Miller Tennis Achievement Test was administered and subjects were randomly paired into two groups in terms of their test performance. A round robin tournament was played within each group to provide group criterion measures. During the eighth week the subjects' maximum velocity of the forehand and backhand drives, and serve, and controlled velocity of the forehand and back drives were tested. Multiple-image photography was used to measure velocity. Maximum velocity of each subject's forehand and backhand drives and serve was correlated with the criterion measure of his gr...
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