The Kinematics Analysis of Carlos Moya and Thomas Enqvist Tennis First Serve

Abstract:

This paper is the discussion and analysis of first serve for the ATP champions tour Chengdu open contestant called Carlos Moya who was the grand slam champion of French open and Thomas Enqvist who was the champion of ATP World Tour Masters 1000,and to find out some regular patterns and features,to demonstrate the principle of kinematics of tennis, aimed at providing some methods for tennis athletes’ training and competition in the future,as well as make some statistics for the coaches to guide the tennis players in the serve tactics. In today's era of tennis serve for high speed development, the elite tennis players are more than 193 km per hour, and a top speed of 251 km of ACES to show us the charm of the tennis serve.Serve is the main means of scoring to win the match, especially the first serve,is offensive weapons,the quality of first serve directly influences of the set of serve for player,high quality of first serve make difficult for opponent from the start,at the same time,they can score initiative by first service,and is a prerequisite to win the set of serve.Therefore,it is the start of the game and the start of attack.The quality of first serve is the key factor of the game.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 971-973)
• Pages: 2740-2743
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.971-973.2740
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Jun Guo*, Ji He Zhou
• Keywords: Kinematics, Serve, Tennis

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