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Gaze Behaviors During Serve Returns in Tennis: A Comparison Between Intermediate- and High-Skill Players

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:20 authored by Camilo Sáenz-Moncaleano, Itay Basevitch, Gershon Tenenbaum
The authors studied gaze behaviors in high- and intermediate-skill tennis players while they performed tennis serve returns. Participants returned 40 serves in 4 serve locations while wearing a mobile eye tracker. The ball’s flight path was deconstructed into 3 distinct locations (i.e., ball before bouncing on surface, the bounce area, and ball after bouncing on surface), and gaze behaviors along with quiet-eye (QE) onset and durations were recorded. Results revealed that (a) high-skill players exhibited better return shots than their lower skill counterparts, (b) high-skill players and high-score shots were characterized by longer fixation durations on the ball at prebounce, and (c) longer QE durations were observed for high-skill players and high-score shots. Findings provide valuable insight into the relationship between gaze behaviors, QE, and performance in fast-pace interceptive sports.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

40

Issue number

2

Page range

49-59

Publication title

Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

ISSN

1543-2904

Publisher

Human Kinetics

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-05-29

Legacy creation date

2018-05-27

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

Note

Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Sport Management, 2018, 40(2): 49-59, https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2017-0253. © Human Kinetics, Inc.

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