ANZ Tennis Hot Shots: Desarrollar, nutrir y fomentar la participación

McInerney, Patrick; Urquhart, Rob; McDonald, Rebecca; Hewitt, Mitchell

doi:10.52383/itfcoaching.v25i72.286

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“…Program" (International Tennis Federation, 2012), "Galaxie Tennis" (Pestre, 2017), "Tennis Hot Shots" (McInerney et al, 2017)] based on different stages with different ball colors, racket lengths, court dimensions and net heights to facilitate the long-term technical and tactical development of tennis players. Beyond these long-term development programs, coaches can also deliberately scale equipment during training sessions to manipulate tasks constraints in the shortterm hope of destabilizing the biomechanics of the existing movement pattern, encouraging exploration and self-organization towards more efficient and safer motor patterns that increase performance and reduce injury risks (Elliott et al, 2009;Reid and Giblin, 2015;Gray, 2021;Fadier et al, 2022).…”

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There is no rush to upgrade the tennis racket in young intermediate competitive players: The effects of scaling racket on serve biomechanics and performance

Touzard

Lecomte

Bideau³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionScaling the equipment of young athletes is justified by the constraints-led approach introduced in motor learning. The aim of the present study is to analyze the effect of racket scaling on the serve biomechanics and performance parameters for young tennis players (between 8 and 11 years-old).MethodsNine young intermediate competitive tennis players (age: 9.9 ± 1.0 years) performed maximal effort flat serves with three different rackets (scaled 23 inches, scaled 25 inches and full-size 27 inches) in a randomized order. A radar measured ball speed while shoulder and elbow kinetics and upper and lower limb kinematics were calculated with a 20-camera optical motion capture system. Repeated measures ANOVAs were used to analyze the effect of the three rackets on ball speed, percentage of serve in, serve kinematics and kinetics.ResultsNo significant differences in ball speed, maximal racket head velocity and percentage of serve in were observed between the three rackets. The lowest maximal upper limb kinetics and the highest upper limb maximal angular velocities were obtained with the scaled 23 inches racket.DiscussionUsing scaled rackets has the advantage to decrease shoulder and elbow loadings without reducing serve performance. Consequently, the present results incite tennis coaches and parents to not upgrade too soon the size of the racket in young intermediate tennis players to avoid overuse injury risks in the long term. Our results showed that the full-size 27 inches racket induced higher lower limb kinematics. As a consequence, occasionally serving with a fullsize racket can be a sparingly interesting intervention to help young tennis players to intuitively and immediately increase their leg drive action, allowing a more functional representation of the elite junior serve.

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There is no rush to upgrade the tennis racket in young intermediate competitive players: The effects of scaling racket on serve biomechanics and performance

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Lecomte

Bideau³

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In accordance with studies showing beneficial effects of child-specific tennis scaling on skills development [2][3][4][5] the International Tennis Federation and national tennis organizations have proposed tennis programs with equipment (racket, ball, net and court sizes) adaptations in recent years (International Tennis Federation's "Tennis 10s Program", 6 French Tennis Federation's "Galaxie Tennis", 7 Lawn Tennis Association's Tennis for Kids Programme, 8 Tennis Australia's "MLC Tennis Hot Shots" 9) to facilitate the long-term development of tennis players and the strokes learning. These programs proposed different tennis stages for young players based on different ball colors, court dimensions and net heights.…”

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Do serve distance and net height modify serve biomechanics in young tennis players?

Fadier

Touzard

Lecomte

et al. 2022

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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The aim of this study was to determine whether decreasing serving distance and net height would immediately influence serve biomechanics and performance in young intermediate tennis players. Ten young tennis players (9 to 12 years) performed maximal effort flat serves from three court conditions (“red”, “orange” and “green”: serving distance at 6.40, 9.00 and 11.89 m from the net and net height at 0.80 m, 0.80 m and 0.91m, respectively). A radar measured ball speed while serve kinetics and kinematics were calculated with a 20-camera optical motion capture system. Repeated measures ANOVAs were used to analyze the effect of the three conditions on ball speed, serve kinematics and kinetics. No significant differences in shoulder and elbow kinetics were observed between the three conditions. Ball speed, maximal flexion angle of the back knee and maximal angular velocities of back knee extension and trunk flexion significantly improved when players served from the red conditions in comparison with green ones. This study shows that reducing serve distance and net height may be an effective coaching strategy to immediately increase ball speed, leg drive and trunk flexion in young tennis players.

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ANZ Tennis Hot Shots: Desarrollar, nutrir y fomentar la participación

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There is no rush to upgrade the tennis racket in young intermediate competitive players: The effects of scaling racket on serve biomechanics and performance

There is no rush to upgrade the tennis racket in young intermediate competitive players: The effects of scaling racket on serve biomechanics and performance

Do serve distance and net height modify serve biomechanics in young tennis players?

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