An investigation of the role of ipsilateral and contralateral eyehand dominance in tennis serves accuracy of adolescent tennis players
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Sports and Physical Education (IOSR-JSPE) - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Eye and hand dominance, as a laterality index, represents structural and functional asymmetries of brain hemispheres. Since the second half of the twentieth century, researchers were concerned with the contribution of hand and eye dominance to aiming skills. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of ipsilateral and contralateral eye-hand dominance of adolescent tennis athletes in tennis serve accuracy. Thirtysixadolescent tennis players, 23 males and 13 females, mean age 13.3 (SD= ±1.47 years) participated in this study. Participants mean training age was two to ten years. According to ipsilateral and contralateral eye-hand dominance, sample was divided into two groups: contralateral eye-hand dominance group, including 18 participants (12 males and 6 females) and ipsilateral eye-hand dominance group, including 18 participants (11 males and 7 females). Eye and hand dominance were evaluated using a self-reported questionnaire. Participants were asked to serve 20 times (10 serves from the “deuce side” of court and 10 from the “advantage side”). Serve accuracy was examined by two experienced, independent examiners. One way Anova analysis has shown no significant differences in accuracy test between the two groups of contralateral and ispilateral eyehand dominance. However, contralateral group achieved higher scores in accuracy from both sides of the court against the ipsilateral group (with mean score 5.72to 5.33 on deuce side and 6.00 to 5.56 on advantage side). Those findings are in line to previous studies with regard to eye hand dominance and tennis serve accuracy in amateur tennis players and athletes.
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Efthymios Ziagkas, Alexandros Mavvidis
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