Within - and between - Session Reliability of the Spider Drill Test to Assess Change of Direction Speed in Youth Tennis Athletes

Huggins, Jessica L.

doi:10.23937/2469-5718/1510074

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“…These results showed that, T-Test scores will be useable to determine 10 meters and 30 meters sprint level of the referees and additionally, T-Test can give information about levels of other skills as agility, quickness and changing direction abilities. Parallelly, a recent study has revealed that a modified T-Test for the tennis players is a reliable test for measuring the change of direction speed namely agility (Huggins, Jarvis, Brazier, Kyriacou, & Bishop, 2017;Sheppard & Young, 2006). Köklü et al (2015) have revealed a strong correlation between 10 meters and 30 meters sprint tests (Köklü, Alemdaroğlu, Özkan, Koz, & Ersöz, 2015).…”

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A Modified T-Test for Football Referees to Test Agility, Quickness and Sprint Performances

Müniroğlu¹,

Subak²

2018

JETS

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The football referees perform many actions as jogging, running, sprinting, side steps and backward steps during a football match. Further, the football referees change match activities every 5-6 seconds. Many tests are being conducted to determine the physical levels and competences of football referees like 50 m running, 200 m running, 12 minutes Cooper test, 6 × 40 m etc. All of these tests include straight runnings dominantly. However, the football is not completely full of straight runnings. Quickness, turning skills and changing direction speed namely agility is the crucial for referees to maintain well positioning during match. For this reason, we have modified the classical T-Test for referees by addition side steps, quick turnings and backward steps to test agility skills and their speed. And we compared the T-Test scores with 10 meters and 30 meters sprint tests scores of 74 male referees (Ankara, Turkey) who regularly participating in trainings and regularly refereeing in matches. All referees performed 10 meters and 30 meters sprint tests twice and we recorded the best sprint times. The referees performed the T-Test one time. All three tests have shown normal distribution frequencies. Our results showed a significant corelation between all of three tests; 10 meters and 30 meters (r = 0,660; P < 0,01), 10 meters and T-Test (r = 0,226; P < 0,01), 30 meters and T-Test (r = 0,269; P < 0,01). These results showed that, T-Test scores will be usable to determine 10 meters and 30 meters sprint level of the referees and additionally, T-Test could also give information about levels of other crutial skills for referees as agility. In conclusion, our data showed that the modified T-Test for referees could be used for testing each of the running speed and agility skills of the soccer referees.

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A Modified T-Test for Football Referees to Test Agility, Quickness and Sprint Performances

Müniroğlu¹,

Subak²

2018

JETS

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“…Ten different types of field-tests ( Table 1 ; for more details, please check Appendix A ) were applied based on previous literary data and research [ 1 , 3 , 5 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ].…”

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“…The aim was to execute the test within the shortest possible time, measured in seconds, and the best result was used for later analysis. The photocell gate was placed at the starting point of the spider run and 1 m above ground level [ 5 , 16 ]. The ICC for this test was 0.90 (0.89–0.91).…”

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Neuromuscular Fitness Is Associated with Success in Sport for Elite Female, but Not Male Tennis Players

Dobos

Novak

Barbaros

2021

IJERPH

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Background: The purpose of the study was to examine whether neuromuscular fitness contributes significantly to the success of eAlite junior tennis players of differing ages and sexes. Methods: The 160 participants, who were elite Hungarian junior tennis players (aged 11–17), were separated into four groups within this study, and 10 different types of field tests were used. Results: A moderate significant correlation was found between the results of the 5 m run (r = −0.42; r = −0.45), standing long jump (r = 0.39; r = 0.56), overhand ball throw (r = 0.44; r = 0.53), serve (r = 0.39; r = 0.64), amount of push-ups in 30 seconds (r = 0.32; r = 0.48), 10 × 5 m run in a shuttle run (r = −0.34; r = −0.45), the spider run (r = −0.34; r = −0.52), and competitive tennis success among U14 and U18 girls. A significant correlation between the overhead medicine ball throw test value (r = 0.47) and the current competitive performance was found only among U18 elite female tennis players. In contrast, no correlation was found between the values of the U14 and U18 male tennis players and their current competitive performance. Conclusions: Additional studies are needed to identify interventions that can increase sport-specific neuromuscular fitness with the ultimate goal of achieving better performance.

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“…The only agility test which included both physical and cognitive agility performance, consisted of one maximal sprint, yet no reliable and valid outcomes ( Ulbricht et al, 2016 ). Others were change of direction (COD) tests without a response to a stimulus ( Barber-Westin et al, 2010 ; Eriksson et al, 2015 ; Fernandez-Fernandez et al, 2016 ; Huggins et al, 2017 ; Leone et al, 2006 ; Sekulic et al, 2017 ; Zemková and Hamar, 2014 ). Therefore, the aim of this study was to design a Tennis-specific Agility Test (TAT) and evaluate its measurement properties.…”

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Design of a Tennis-Specific Agility Test (TAT) for Monitoring Tennis Players

Jansen¹,

Elferink‐Gemser²,

Hoekstra³

et al. 2021

Journal of Human Kinetics

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Agility is an important ability for tennis players. To be successful in the rallies, players must perform rapid, multidirectional movements in response to the ball and/or the position of the opponent. For a test to be representative in monitoring agility performance, it should capture a combination of the physical and cognitive agility performance. Considering that literature reports no reliable and valid sport-specific agility test for tennis, the aim of this article was to design and evaluate the measurement properties of a Tennis-specific Agility Test (TAT). To evaluate the TAT, test-retest reliability, concurrent validity, and feasibility were assessed. For reproducibility, a two-way mixed ANOVA was performed. Concurrent validity was assessed using Pearson correlations. A total of 69 tennis players participated in this study of whom 16 competed at the international (22 ± 3.7 years, playing level (Dynamic Rating System): .8 ± .3), 43 at the national (14 ± 1.4 years, playing level: 4.6 ± 1.4), and 10 at the regional level (15 ± 0.8 years, playing level: 4.9 ± 1.1). Test-retest reliability was found to be moderate with an Intra-Class Correlation coefficient (ICC) of .74 (p < .01) and a percentual minimal detectable change (%MDC) of 6.2%. Concurrent validity was found to be moderate by comparison with a recognised agility test, the Spider Drill, which measures only the physical component (.70; p < .01), and by comparison with tennis performance for both boys (r = .67; p < .01) and girls (r = .72; p < .01). The feasibility was high with short time for preparation (five to ten minutes) and time per participant (<5 minutes). In conclusion, the TAT shows promising results for assessing sport-specific agility performance in tennis making it likely to be used in the practical setting.

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Within - and between - Session Reliability of the Spider Drill Test to Assess Change of Direction Speed in Youth Tennis Athletes

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

A Modified T-Test for Football Referees to Test Agility, Quickness and Sprint Performances

A Modified T-Test for Football Referees to Test Agility, Quickness and Sprint Performances

Neuromuscular Fitness Is Associated with Success in Sport for Elite Female, but Not Male Tennis Players

Design of a Tennis-Specific Agility Test (TAT) for Monitoring Tennis Players

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