ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2023
Plantar pressure is changed to increase post-impact ball speed during longline forehand and backhand groundstroke in elite female tennis players.
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- Exploring Difference in Hand-Foot Coordination Ability Among Tennis Players of Different Sport Levels Based on the Correlation Between Lower-Limb Acceleration and Hand Grip Force.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The role of increased post-impact ball speed on plantar pressure during open and square stance groundstrokes in female tennis players.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- The role of increased post-impact ball speed on plantar pressure during topspin and slice longline forehand groundstrokes in female tennis players.BMC research notes · 2023Article
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Introduction: Achieving high ball speed during the execution of groundstrokes represents a performance-relevant factor in tennis. However, it is unclear how plantar pressure data undergo change during the execution of groundstrokes by tennis players to achieve high postimpact ball speed. Thus, the objective of the present study is to determine how tennis players change the plantar pressure in each foot when they execute longline forehand and backhand groundstrokes in order to increase postimpact ball speed. Methods: Seventeen healthy nationally ranked female tennis players (mean age: 21.7 ± 7.7 years) participated in this study. The players performed longline forehand and backhand groundstrokes (topspin) at four postimpact ball speed levels, i.e., at 80 km/h, 90 km/h, 100 km/h, and Results: Irrespective of the stroke technique, the repeated measures ANOVA procedure showed significant ball speed × foot dominance interactions. For the forehand stroke, post hoc analyses revealed significantly increased (dominant foot) and decreased (non-dominant foot) pressure values when the postimpact ball speed increased from 100 km/h to Discussion: The significantly varying plantar pressure changes depending on the stroke technique and foot dominance to increase postimpact ball speed suggest that specific physical exercises related to the foot (dominant vs. non-dominant foot) and groundstroke (forehand vs. backhand) seem to be necessary for plantar pressure optimization.
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