Abstract
The aim of the current study was twofold: (a) to construct an Interactive Three-Phase Structure for table tennis performance analysis and (b) to apply the proposed structure to the performance analysis of elite men’s singles matches. The current structure makes improvements over the former ones in the following aspects: more comprehensive performance variables consisting of bilateral actions covering the whole rally competing process, a better phase division method fitting to the real match situation and more focused analysis achieved by the designed critical phase. The analysis of 56 elite men’s singles matches (5507 rallies) was conducted using the proposed structure. The results demonstrated that performance variables of the rally competing process ceasing in Phase 2 (initial attack and counterattack phase) were decisive for the rally outcome of elite men’s singles matches. The proposed structure provides practitioners with a better model to enhance the effectiveness of table tennis performance analysis.
Highlights
Notational performance analysis is indispensable for racket sports with the aim of objectively evaluating performance to provide guidance for future training and match preparation (Hughes and Bartlett, 2002; Malagoli Lanzoni et al, 2014; McGarry and Franks, 1994; O’Donoghue and Ingram, 2001)
The test of goodness of fit was performed to make comparison between the expected equal frequency distribution and the observed frequency distribution of (a) the cessation phase of the rally competing process (RCP), (b) the rally cessation manner of Phase 1, (c) the interaction pattern from Phase 1 to Phase 2 (IP1-2) of the RCP ceasing in Phase 2, and (d) IP1-2 of the RCP ceasing in Phase 3
Receiver control fault (a3) was the most frequent occurring rally cessation manner of Phase 1 (RCM1) that accounted for 55.8% of the RCP ceasing in Phase 1 (RCP1), with the least frequent RCM1 being service error (a1) (14.3%)
Summary
Notational performance analysis is indispensable for racket sports with the aim of objectively evaluating performance to provide guidance for future training and match preparation (Hughes and Bartlett, 2002; Malagoli Lanzoni et al, 2014; McGarry and Franks, 1994; O’Donoghue and Ingram, 2001). Among this group of sports, table tennis is unique due to the limited playing surface and the small and light ball for play, which requires excellent technical and tactical skills of athletes to master the fast pace, high velocity, diverse spin and everchanging placement (Tamaki et al, 2017; Wang, 2019). During the rally competing process, techniques used, except the service, have been categorized into three
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