Tennis science & technology / edited by S.J. Haake, A. Coe.
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Science,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- The balance between technology and tradition in tennis
- 2. Equipment
- An overview of racket technology
- Modelling the impact between a tennis ball and racket using rigid body dynamics
- The influence of racket moment of inertia during the tennis serve: 3-dimensional analysis
- Dynamics of the collision between a tennis ball and a tennis racket
- Sweet area prediction of tennis racket estimated by power: comparison between two super large sized rackets with different frame mass distribution
- On tennis equipment, impact simulation and stroke precision
- Prediction of the impact shock vibrations of the player's wrist joint: comparison between two super large sized rackets with different frame mass distribution
- Development of a racket with an "Impact Shock Protection System"
- One size fits all? Sensitivity to moment of inertia information from tennis rackets in children and adults
- Dynamic properties of tennis strings
- Methods to determine the aerodynamic forces acting on tennis balls in flight
- Tennis science collaboration between NASA and Cislunar Aerospace
- Aeromechanical and aerodynamic behaviour of tennis balls
- Analytical modelling of the impact of tennis balls on court surfaces
- The interaction of the tennis ball and the court surface
- The variation of static and dynamic tennis ball properties with temperature
- Dynamic testing of tennis balls
- Characterising the service bounce using a speed gun
- 3. The court and facilities
- Facilities equal growth
- Construction and maintenance of championship grass courts
- Ground conditions in tennis court construction
- The use of quality control procedures during the construction of tennis courts
- Alternative structures for covered tennis
- Impact-absorbing characteristics of tennis playing surfaces
- Investigation into the sports characteristics of short and medium pile synthetic turfs and textile tennis court surfaces
- Comparison testing of let-cord sensors - the Trinity system by GTE and the Sharpline system by Signal Processing Systems, Inc.
- CFD modeling of full-size tennis courts
- 4. The game
- Proposals to slow the serve in tennis
- Reaction time testing and grand slam tie-break data
- How to reduce the service dominance in tennis? Empirical results from four years at Wimbledon
- "New balls please": tennis, technology, and the changing game
- Tennis and the environment
- Unforced errors and error reduction in tennis
- 5. Sports science
- Muscle activity in tennis
- Rackets, strings and balls in relation to tennis elbow
- Fatigue, carbohydrate supplementation and skilled tennis performance
- Nutritional status of performance-level junior players
- Sport-specific conditioning for tennis: science and myth
- The biomechanical fundamentals, the commonalities, and the preferences of tennis strokes
- Modern day tennis coaching: the impact of the Sport Sciences
- Relation between selected psychological features and sports abilities in junior tennis
- Kinematic analysis of the service stroke in tennis
- Dynamic characteristics of two techniques applied to the field tennis serve
- Kinematics of trunk and upper extremity in tennis flat serve
- Strategies for the return of 1st and 2nd serves
- The development of an emotion control programme for adolescent tennis players
- Professional tennis players in the zone
- Development of a new machine for tennis players to strengthen the lower limb adductor muscles
- Endurance in tennis - a complex approach
- Battery of tests for prediction and evaluation of tennis players
- Longitudinal observation of physical and motor preconditions in tennis
- Trigger - Osteopractic: a novel approach for the treatment of tennis related injuries
- Author Index
- Subject Index.