Abstract
Some of the beginner athletes in UKM of court tennis in UPGRIS conduct swing on the forehand striking in a slightly different way. Some when swinging with fully straight arms, some are slightly bent. The aim of the study is to investigate the differences between elbow extension and elbow flexion toward the accuracy level of forehand striking of court tennist. This research method uses comparative design. The sample of this study is the tennis players of the students in Universitas PGRI Semarang, the total are 7 people. The Hewiit Tennis Achievement Test is used for forehand striking instruments and dartfish software to find out the differences between the elbow movements and the analysis. Independent t-test is used to find out the differences of the striking accuracy result. The results show the significant differencs between elbow extension and elbow flexion with an average score of 22 and 63, with the significance value of a difference of 0.001. The conclusion of this research is that the elbow flexion movement in forwardswing step is better than elbow extension movement.
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