Abstract
Background: Nowadays tennis is becoming faster and players are able to hit powerful from virtually anywhere on the tennis court. Training programmers and effective planning will help in designing safe, effective, and productive programs designed to help optimize the tennis performance of players. Objective: This research examine the effectiveness of open and closed stance forehand strokes in terms of percentage of success, accuracy and also to investigate whether there is a relation between level of accuracy and the choice of forehand strokes used by tennis player. Method: Participants were divided into two groups, namely, male and female who learned forehand strokes for one month. The participants were tested by using a two skill test for percentage of success and level of accuracy. Result: Founding showed that the closed stance forehand stroke has far better percentage of success and accuracy among the intermediate tennis players, but the difference was not significant. In addition, male players showed more accuracy and success in this research. And also accuracy did not have any influence to choice of forehand stroke among the intermediate tennis players. Conclusion: This research could improve the training protocol design for teaching the closed stance and open stance strokes. Keywords: Forehand stroke, open stance, closed stance, tennis accuracy, percentage of success
Highlights
Tennis is a popular sport played throughout the world
The population of the study consisted of all intermediate tennis players ranging from 18 to 25 years old who were learning the sport of tennis in Enghelab Tennis Club located in Tehran, Iran
To determine the difference between the males and females in terms of percentage of success and accuracy level in both open and closed stances, an independent t test was applied and the results indicated that there was a significant difference between females and males for success in all tests (Table 3 and Table 4)
Summary
Tennis is a popular sport played throughout the world. It is estimated that about 75 million people play tennis regularly. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including people in wheelchairs (Bahamonde & Knudson, 2003; Duane, 1991; Sandamas, 2013). Objective: This research examine the effectiveness of open and closed stance forehand strokes in terms of percentage of success, accuracy and to investigate whether there is a relation between level of accuracy and the choice of forehand strokes used by tennis player. The participants were tested by using a two skill test for percentage of success and level of accuracy. Result: Founding showed that the closed stance forehand stroke has far better percentage of success and accuracy among the intermediate tennis players, but the difference was not significant. Male players showed more accuracy and success in this research. Conclusion: This research could improve the training protocol design for teaching the closed stance and open stance strokes
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