Quantifying the nature of anticipation in professional tennis.

We quantify the nature and frequency of anticipation behaviours in professional tennis using video coding of incidents where the time delay between the opponent's stroke and the reaction of the player were recorded. We argue that anticipation is based on uncertain information and should lead in some...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Journal of Sports Sciences Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 820 - 831
Autores principales: Triolet, Celine, Benguigui, Nicolas, Le Runigo, Cyrille, Williams, A. Mark
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2013
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104266326&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 104266326
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        02640414
        5BV
      jtl: Journal of Sports Sciences
      issn: 02640414
      maglogo: Y
    pubinfo:
      dt: May2013
      vid: 31
      iid: 8
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    artinfo:
      ui:
        104266326
        86729063
        10.1080/02640414.2012.759658
        NLM23362917
        104266326
      ppf: 820
      ppct: 11
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: Quantifying the nature of anticipation in professional tennis.
      aug:
        au:
          Triolet, Celine
          Benguigui, Nicolas
          Le Runigo, Cyrille
          Williams, A. Mark
        affil: Université Paris Sud 11, UFR STAPS, Bât 335, Orsay Cedex, 91405, France
      sug:
        subj:
          Tennis
          Movement
          Athletic Performance
          Athletes, Professional
          Perception
          Videorecording
          Retrospective Design
          Interrater Reliability
          Intrarater Reliability
          T-Tests
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Adult
          Male
          Human
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Male
      ab: We quantify the nature and frequency of anticipation behaviours in professional tennis using video coding of incidents where the time delay between the opponent's stroke and the reaction of the player were recorded. We argue that anticipation is based on uncertain information and should lead in some situations to erroneous decisions. We identified the transition between reaction (with 100% accuracy in the selection of where the ball is played on the court) and anticipation (with less than 100% accuracy) as being 140-160 ms after ball contact. Anticipation behaviours occurred on between 6.14% and 13.42% of the coded situations. These anticipation behaviours appeared almost exclusively in `unfavourable' situations, where the opponent had a significant tactical advantage, with the type of playing surface having only a limited effect. Moreover, the decrease in accuracy with shorter response times is not monotonic, with an increase in response accuracy being observed for times shorter than 120 ms before ball contact. We propose that very early anticipation behaviours occur when players use significant context-specific information before the opponent's stroke. When such information is not available, players produce anticipation behaviours that are closer to the moment of ball-racket contact using information that is more likely to be based on the opponent's preparation of the stroke. This study opens new directions for research focusing on the testing and training of anticipation in fast ball sports.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        pictorial
        research
        tables/charts
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N