Tennis Lessons Research Articles

Effects of Professional Tennis Registry (Ptr) Teaching System on the Mastery of Skills of Tennis Athletes

This article explores the current development status of tennis in China and its prospects in Guizhou universities. As a "noble sport", tennis has a prominent position and broad foundation in the Chinese sports world. In recent years, Chinese tennis has made remarkable achievements in international competitions and is developing rapidly on university campuses. However, existing teaching resources and management models cannot meet current needs, which has affected the development of tennis in colleges and universities. Especially in Guizhou, due to economic lag, the teaching staff and equipment level of colleges and universities are relatively backward. Therefore, introducing tennis into campuses has become an inevitable trend, and improving teaching standards has become a top priority. This article proposes that adopting PTR teaching method may be an effective method to increase students' interest and satisfaction in tennis lessons. Researchers will use interviews, questionnaires, quantitative research and other methods to explore issues and propose targeted strategies to promote the development of tennis in Guizhou colleges and universities.

Enhancing classroom attention during Ramadan: The efficacy of instructional videos in sports science education

Millions of Muslim university students observe Ramadan annually, yet little research explores their classroom experiences amid the distinctive circumstances of this holy month. Addressing this research gap, this study investigates the association between Ramadan observance and classroom attention among sports science students. Additionally, the effectiveness of instructional videos as an intervention was examined. In a crossover design, thirty-six fasting students received exposure to three regular theoretical tennis lessons before Ramadan, three regular lessons during Ramadan, and three lessons incorporating instructional videos during Ramadan. A counterbalancing procedure was implemented to minimize confounders, including the order of exposure, the time of day, and the lesson content. Classroom attention was assessed through self-reporting using digital clickers throughout 50-min lessons. The results revealed a significant increase in attention lapses during regular Ramadan lessons (non-Ramadan: 3.69 ± 2.08 lapses vs. Ramadan: 6.89 ± 2.55 lapses; p < 0.001). Surprisingly, attention lapses decreased significantly (p < 0.001), even compared to non-Ramadan conditions (p < 0.01), when instructional videos were used (2.42 ± 1.57 lapses). The effectiveness of instructional videos in improving classroom attention under Ramadan observance is highlighted in this study. While heightened attention levels are generally acknowledged as indicators of a more efficient knowledge acquisition experience, this research does not explicitly posit instructional videos as effective content-delivery tools under Ramadan conditions. However, it lays the groundwork for such possibilities, which could be investigated in future research.

Characteristics of physical activity during beginner-level group tennis lessons and the effect daily activity

Tennis is a popular leisure sport, and studies have indicated that playing tennis regularly provides many health benefits. We aimed to clarify the characteristics of physical activity during beginner-level group tennis lessons and daily physical activity of the participants. Physical activity was measured using an accelerometer sensor device for four weeks, including the 80-min duration tennis lessons held twice a week. Valid data were categorized for tennis and non-tennis days. The mean physical activity intensity during the tennis lesson was 3.37 METs. The mean ratio of short-bout rest periods to the tennis lesson time in 90 and 120 s was 7% and 4%, respectively. The mean physical activity intensity was significantly higher (p < 0.0001) and the duration of vigorous-intensity physical activity (VPA) was increased in 76% of participants on days with tennis lessons compared to without tennis lessons. Beginner-level tennis lesson has characteristics of less short-bout rest physical activity than previously reported competitive tennis match and increased the duration of VPA in daily activity compared to without tennis lessons, suggesting that beginner-level tennis lessons contribute physical activity of health benefits.

The effect of multimedia-assisted sport education model on teaching tennis lessons in colleges and universities

Abstract The development of information technology is accelerating the development of network multimedia-assisted teaching modes. In this regard, this paper studies the influence of multimedia-assisted sports education on the teaching of tennis classes in colleges and universities. The first step is to analyze the applicable fields and characteristics of network multimedia CAI. Then, the TLBO algorithm focuses on analyzing the “teaching” and “learning” phases of tennis teaching and finds that the TLBO algorithm has defects. To overcome the local optimal situation of the TLBO algorithm, a grouping mechanism is implemented to optimize the TLBO algorithm and maintain the diversity of the population. Finally, the influence of multimedia-assisted teaching was studied in terms of learning motivation, physical fitness, and learning effect. From the perspective of liking tennis sport, the number of experimental classes is 20, which is 15 more than the number of control classes. The mean score of the experimental class in the forehand hitting spinning ball test was 19 points higher than that of the control class.

Targeted teaching method combined with stepped assessment in public tennis lessons

In order to put students in the spotlight and make it simpler for them to understand and master the teaching topics, public tennis classes in colleges and universities used a combination of targeted teaching techniques and a staged evaluation method. A random sampling was used to select 200 students from public physical education classes at Zhuhai University of Science and Technology as the study population. They were divided into a control group and an experimental group of 100 students each (50 male and 50 female). The study found significant differences between the experimental and control groups in terms of forehand stroke, backhand stroke, technical movements, physical fitness, interest in learning, and motivation to learn. The use of the goal-based teaching technique in combination with the phased evaluation method has been shown to improve students' fundamental tennis skills, as well as their interest and motivation in learning. These results suggest that this teaching method could be effective in the instruction of public sports classes at universities.

Learn, move, compete: an alternative approach to mini tennis lessons

In this article, we look at how competition is presented in the traditional mini tennis lesson, finding that it typically occurs once, at the end of the session. We then explore some of the limitations associated with competition in this format. Following that, we discuss the importance of developing competitive capabilities, and propose an alternative way of approaching the mini tennis lesson to provide more opportunity for competition while systematically developing tactical and technical skills in a manner consistent with findings from skill acquisition research. This methodological approach, we suggest, provides a more fertile environment in which to develop competitive performers alongside the tactical and technical performance factors.

The effectiveness of the tennis in the physical education of the applicants of the higher education

The physical education in higher education institutions is an integral part of the formation of the general and professional culture of the modern specialist, the system of humanistic education of students. The main task of physical education in higher education institutions is to preserve and strengthen the health of students during their studies while ensuring an adequate level of their psychophysical readiness for future professional activities. The classes of the physical education contribute to the optimization of motor activity in this contingent.&#x0D; The optimal physical activity promotes health, functioning of the cardiovascular, respiratory and other systems of the body, improvement of physical development, increasing the level of physical fitness, mental and physical performance. In recent years, the volume of physical activity of higher education students has decreased significantly. The lack of physical activity negatively affects the health, functional state of systems and analyzers, physical development and physical fitness, intellectual activity of this contingent. One of the effective ways to increase the motor activity of higher education students is to involve them in systematic tennis lessons.&#x0D; The purpose of the study: to reveal the effectiveness of tennis in the physical education of students of higher education institutions. Research methods: theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific and methodical literature. Results of the research. On the basis of the analysis of scientific and methodical literature the effectiveness of tennis lessons by applicants for higher education in physical education classes was studied. Conclusions. The systematic tennis lessons have a positive effect on the physical and functional state, contribute to the formation of volitional qualities in applicants for higher education.

Research on Teaching Application and Training Method of Double Reverse Technique in Tennis

Along with the rapid economic development and the national attention to sports, tennis has turned into a very popular ball sport among college students. In recent years, due to the rapid development of campus tennis, tennis has been widely promoted in various universities. In order to make more students aware of tennis culture, and gradually fall in love with this sport, tennis lessons are actively conducted in universities. The article describes the characteristics of using double reverse technique in tennis from both theoretical and practical aspects, and proposes a corresponding training program.

The Effects of Visual Feedback on Learning Efficiency in Physical Education Tennis Lessons

The Effects of Visual Feedback on Learning Efficiency in Physical Education Tennis Lessons

Carlos Zarate: striving for better treatments for mood disorders

Carlos Zarate's journey to his current position as Chief of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Bethesda, MD, USA, began with tennis. During high school in Cordoba, Argentina, Zarate, a young tennis star, gave tennis lessons to the chief of cardiovascular surgery at a private hospital who in return allowed him to observe cardiac and neurosurgeries. “I spent all my summers in high school doing that” and “I fell in love with neurosurgery and started getting interested in the brain”, he recalls. Zarate went to medical school at the Catholic University of Cordoba and, after moving to the USA and completing the clinical part of his foreign medical exam, he was offered a psychiatry residency at Brockton Veterans Administration Medical Center in Massachusetts. There, he was inspired by some of the “legends of psychopharmacology” at the time including Alan Green, and in Boston, Carl Salzman and Joe Schildkraut.

Research on the Application of Artificial Neural Network-Based Virtual Image Technology in College Tennis Teaching.

At the same time that my country has shifted from high-speed development to high-quality development, my country has also put forward new requirements for education development. Due to the limited study time during college, each student's study habits and learning process are also different, and the degree of connection between tennis lessons is high, so there will be polarization when learning tennis. With the development of science and technology, more and more technological innovations are integrated into the classroom, and traditional teaching methods can no longer keep up with the pace of the times. Tennis teaching is a subject of equal proportion between theory and practice. The traditional teaching method simplifies the theory, which makes students to have some bad phenomena when they practice. Aiming at this series of problems, this paper uses algorithms such as softmax function and threshold function to construct an application model of virtual image technology based on the artificial neural network in tennis teaching. The research results of the article show that: (1) the average accuracy rate of the method in this paper is 97.22%, and the highest accuracy rate is 99.17%. The average accuracy rate also tends to increase with the increase of sample size; the recall rate is the highest, and the highest recall rate is 99.36%. The average recall rate is 96.77%; the highest correct rate is close to 100% and is significantly higher than the other three methods; the average correct rate reaches 98.8%; the response time is the shortest; the average response time is 33 ms; and the response time increases with the increase of the sample size. (2) After using this model, tennis skills have been improved, with an average of 12 in situ flips, an average of 7 in situ rackets, an average of 5 in situ forehand draws, and an average of 3 in situ backhand draws. (3) The average forehand and backhand scores of the class after the experiment were 90 and 86; the average forehand and backhand stability were 8 and 7; and the average forehand and backhand accuracy were 31 and 29, respectively. The average depth of forehand and backhand is 36 and 32. (4) Most of the students are satisfied with this model, and they all choose to strongly agree and relatively agree, and the percentage of very agree that helps stimulate learning has reached 60.52%, and no students choose to disagree very much.

TAM Perception of Teachers to Students' Learning Outcomes in Table Tennis Lesson

The development of science and technology is increasingly rapid and penetrates into all aspects of life. One of the efforts to utilize technology is to use a variety of existing technologies in maximizing ongoing learning such as in PJOK learning (physical education, sports, and health). The purpose of this study is to analyse of teaching staff or teachers in order to maximize technology in teaching and learning activities, so that physical education, sports and health can run optimally. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling with total of 42 teachers. This research uses (mixed method) with explanatory design. The instrument of this study used a learning outcome question sheet and an observation sheet. The results of this study are teachers of PJOK subjects are more dominant with good categories based on gender, namely male teachers are superior and based on the range of years of service, namely teachers with a work period of 1-8 years are superior and the technology acceptance model (TAM) on teachers has an influence which is significant to student learning outcomes on the material of table tennis sports. Then the technology that continues to develop provides convenience in teaching and learning activities for physical education, sports and health lessons.

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Targeted Teaching Method Combined with Stepped Assessment in Public Tennis Lessons

Targeted Teaching Method Combined with Stepped Assessment in Public Tennis Lessons

COVID-19 Prevention Measures Implemented by Tennis Coaches: The Role of Continent, Experience, and Type of Facility.

The prevention strategies used by tennis coaches when delivering tennis lessons during the COVID-19 pandemic were analyzed in this study. An ad hoc questionnaire collected data from 655 Spanish and Portuguese speaking tennis coaches working in Latin America and Europe. Differences in the prevention measures were analyzed according to the continent, the coaches’ experience, and the type of facility they worked in. Results showed that coaches used information provided from local and national organizations more than from international ones. Hand hygiene, communication of preventive strategies, and changes in the coaching methodology were the most used prevention measures. Latin American coaches and those working in public facilities implemented the measures more often than their European colleagues or those working in private venues. Finally, more experienced coaches showed a greater awareness of the adoption of the measures than their less experienced counterparts. The data provided by this research may assist in developing new specific guidelines, protocols, and interventions to help better understand the daily delivery of tennis coaching in this challenging context.

Health direction of section on table tennis

The article is devoted to the formation of a versatile harmoniously physically developed personality, ready for active creative self-realization in the space of universal human culture. The article discusses the health-improving orientation of table tennis lessons among students. Table tennis is one of the means of physical development, increasing the role of physical culture in the upbringing of student youth, health promotion, increasing in the volume of physical activity of students, developing their physical qualities and improving physical fitness, instilling skills in a healthy lifestyle Training efficiency depends on the degree of rational organization of closeness of employments, optimal dosage of loading, account of individual features of stu-dents. Depending on these factors and stage of preparation, employments can be conducted by means of different organizational forms (group, individual, frontal forms of training). The work of the table tennis section contributes to the development of basic physical qualities, the formation of vital motor skills and abilities, the development of coordination abilities and special psychophysical qualities, such as reaction, attention, thinking. The game contributes to the upbringing of a harmoniously developed personality, aimed at long-term preservation of a high level of general performance, upbringing of positive personality traits, collective interaction and cooperation in educational and competitive activities. The main advantage of table tennis is that it is a game. The game can be viewed as a kind of model of the elements of real life, reproducing the practical behavior of a person within the boundaries of predetermined conditions.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S INTEREST FOR THE PRACTICE OF TENNIS

The tennis coach must be a good psychologist, especially at the level of the children, from whom he expects performances according to their ability. To be a good psychologist, not a professional but a conjuncture one. The tennis coach must have, besides the specialized and basic knowledge of psychology, which helps him to know, understand, make decisions regarding the -behavioral manifestations of the children, both during the training and in the official games. Specialists and technicians in the field are constantly striving to define a methodical, scientifically and practical concept to attract as many children as possible to practice tennis with great pleasure. Play is an indispensable element in the development of the child, at all ages, and the playful spirit must be present in all forms of child preparation. At children, physical training is an essential condition of harmonious physical and mental development. Even from early childhood, the child is unable to limit his effort, he is playing all the time, anywhere, with anything, at any time. A healthy child, can practice the sport without restrictions. Up to the age of 12, the number of workouts at children can be 3-4 per week, and above this age, can be practiced daily or sometimes there may be two workouts per day. In all stages of training, the trainer must be in permanent contact with the doctor, psychologist, physical trainer but also with the sportsman's parents. The development of the interest for playing tennis by children, must be generated by more cumulative aspects that must be agreed by children: the space environment for the lessons, materials needed for the tennis lessons to which we add respect, patience, communication, understanding of the coach. Physical exercise represents a predominantly bodily action which, carried out with joy, in children, influences considerably the processes of harmonious physical development, the functional and mental capacities that rationally converge to the general development of children, while also ensuring the basis of motor skills.

Scientific and Methodological Foundation of Improvement of the Students` Coordination Abilities at the Table Tennis Training Lessons

The problems of physical education and health are very important due to the world situation. The article contains information about interests of students of higher educational institutions: we have noted the rising interest to the table tennis, as a spectacular kind of sport.&#x0D; Table tennis is one of the most popular kinds of sport among students. It helps to develop following skills: accuracy, speed and reaction speed, explosive power, sense of rhythm operational thinking, the ability to concentrate attention and coordination. Table tennis has been recommended as the most perspective kind of sport, which is available for health.&#x0D; The article provides an example of structure and content of physical education training lessons with students of higher educational institutions with the use of table tennis. Students of the experimental group worked at the increasing their coordination abilities at the table tennis lessons. The training was divided into three parts: preparation, the main part and the conclusion. Each part had the own differences. The preparation part took up 12-15% of the total time and was aimed to involve and warm up the big muscles.&#x0D; The main part of the lesson took up 75-80% of the total time. This part was divided into three: exercises without the ball, exercises with the ball and the racket, training games. The final part of the lesson was about 10% of the total time. Exercises were aimed at relaxing: breathing, flexibility exercises, jogging, walking.&#x0D; In order to improve the coordination skills it necessary to remember for methodological principles: coordination exercises should be at the beginning of the lesson, exercises should be difficult, limited of the number and duration, exercises should be at the defined time, using of the general physical exercises.

"Worldmaking in a Shitstorm: Review of The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart"

"Worldmaking in a Shitstorm: Review of The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart" Elisabeth R. Anker (bio) Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart. The Hundreds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. 184 pp. $24.95 (pb). ISBN: 9781478002888. The Hundreds is a speculative and seductive book. It not a typical academic tome; rather than containing sequential chapters that analyze and judge a given topic, it is composed of short prose poems and theoretical musings about the impact of the world on everyday experience. Each vignette is only 100 words, or multiples of 100 words—hence the book's title—and dwells in commonplace and often unnoticed points of contact between people, objects, infrastructure, and atmosphere. They magnify situations otherwise written off as unimportant or irrelevant to the serious work of politics and social analysis: small talk at the gym, butt marks on a couch, Red Bull, a broken-down car, cake decoration, stress and weed at the end of a long day, sex-like noises from a juice box, tennis lessons. Combined, the vignettes make up a "congested tableau of the present": ordinary scenes that impact, take over, or underwhelm everyday experiences. (105) Authors Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart ask what sustained attention to the minor might reveal about what's happening in the world and the relations that constitute that happening. They explore how people make a world, and make do with a world, within and against "a shit-storm of a life," and they attend to the smallness of pain, intimacy, discomfort, and astonishing beauty that comprise banal encounters. (22) Yet the authors push against the idea that every encounter has to be judged or have a use value. As they lament, "These days even a shit has to enter the workforce." (13) Berlant and Stewart aim to do something else with that shit. They probe it, caress it, notice the angst and the pleasure and the disappointment of different kinds of shit people confront every day. And they ask us to also perceive the subtlety of these daily encounters, rather than criticize or dismiss them. From there they invite readers to imagine expanded possibilities for living in the present: "Something says wake up and pee, then go make life." (102) This is fundamentally a book about making life. The Hundreds is an outgrowth of the work we've come to know of Berlant and Stewart, as each work in various registers to show how ordinary affective experiences make worlds and shape attachments to others. But in this collaboration the authors depart into a poetic and speculative register to explore more personal vignettes, including encounters with Disney World, homeless ministers at the gym (the gym being a central space for encounters in this book), café chatter, fake dating games, and Midway Airport, dissecting felt moments of self-dissolution, uncomfortable closeness, eavesdropping, and frustration. The vignettes initially might seem to find kinship with expressive forms like the Facebook post or Twitter feed (including the arbitrary space limits), but are actually quite different. Their prose poems are not self-burnishing personal brand enterprises, approval-seeking humblebrags, righteous political denunciation, [End Page 834] or even reflective of a coherent and self-referential subject. Instead, by exploring the subtlety of how people navigate their worlds, their "way is to notice relations and varieties of impact," to strive for the "perfectly quotidian ambition to register what's happening" (5, 21). They are less concerned with shoring up a self than in exploring the intricacies of relationality; a vignette titled "Friendhating" is at once eviscerating, petty, and full of affection, encompassing a range of different modes by which people connect to others amidst the blockages placed in their way and the blockages they create for themselves. The authors' approach to scenic moments is distinctly non-melodramatic and nonheroic, which doesn't mean they aren't intense or affectively powerful. But if "genre's a blanky" (91) that provides clarity, predictability, and solace against the incoherence of life, The Hundreds uses less clarifying genre forms that allow readers to feel their way into a scene rather than prescribing a coherent felt experience for them. Berlant and Stewart call them "genres of the middle": thought experiments...

Relationships between tennis experience, executive function, and self-regulation of dietary behaviour in children

Physical inactivity and unbalanced dietary behaviour in childhood have become worldwide public health concerns. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between sports activity (tennis), executive functions, and dietary related self-regulation in children. Fifty-two participants (6–12 years old, 31 males and 21 females) were enrolled in regular tennis lessons prior to the study (mean ± SD = 3 ± 2 years). Executive functions and basic processing speed were evaluated using three tasks (the Stroop test, the 2-back task, and the Local-global task). Dietary behaviour (extent of dislike for food and ratio of eating disliked food) was evaluated using questionnaires. An established questionnaire available for use in clinical investigations, the Food Frequency Questionnaire based on food groups, was used to obtain a detailed assessment of food intake. Regression analyses demonstrated that tennis experience was positively associated with basic processing speed and executive functions. Furthermore, higher executive functions were related to a higher ratio of eating disliked food, while no such association was observed for basic processing speed. A higher ratio for eating disliked food was related to better dietary intake (i.e. larger vegetable intake). Structural equation modelling revealed that the model had an adequate fit to the data (χ2 = 3.05, p = .55, GFI = .98, AGFI = .92, RMSEA = .00). The model indicated the following cascade associations: tennis experience → executive functions → rate of eating disliked food → vegetable intake. This study implied that longer sports experience is associated with better dietary related self-regulation via higher executive functions.