TY - JOUR
T1 - Serve efficiency development in women's vs. men's professional tennis.
AU - Grambow, Ralph
AU - Born, Philipp
AU - O'Shannessy, Craig
AU - Breuer, Jonas
AU - Meffert, Dominik
AU - Vogt, Tobias
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Purpose. The purpose was to identify possible gender-specific differences in long-term serve efficiency development inprofessional women’s and men’s tennis.Methods. The analyses focused on 2 approaches: (1) total tournament comparison and (2) 2nd tournament week vs. 1st tournamentweek comparison. The data include all single matches at the Wimbledon Championship between 2002 and 2015(ladies: n = 1771, gentlemen: n = 1772).Results. The findings showed significant development differences in favour of elite men over elite women in both comparisons.Regarding the total tournament comparison, men’s development of 2nd serve points won (p < 0.001; r = 0.86),1st serves in (p < 0.05; r = 0.72), and double fault (p < 0.001; r = 0.85) percentages improved significantly more. As per the2nd tournament week vs. 1st tournament week comparison, men’s development of 2nd serve points won (p < 0.05; r = 0.68)and double fault (p < 0.01; r = 0.86) percentages improved significantly more.Conclusions. The study revealed serve efficiency development advantages for men over women in both comparisons, especiallyregarding the quality of the 2nd serve, whereas no development advantages in favour of women over men could beobserved in any analysed parameter, indicating possible needs to adapt elite women’s coaching.Key words: elite, coaching, practice, gender, game opening, Wimbledon
AB - Purpose. The purpose was to identify possible gender-specific differences in long-term serve efficiency development inprofessional women’s and men’s tennis.Methods. The analyses focused on 2 approaches: (1) total tournament comparison and (2) 2nd tournament week vs. 1st tournamentweek comparison. The data include all single matches at the Wimbledon Championship between 2002 and 2015(ladies: n = 1771, gentlemen: n = 1772).Results. The findings showed significant development differences in favour of elite men over elite women in both comparisons.Regarding the total tournament comparison, men’s development of 2nd serve points won (p < 0.001; r = 0.86),1st serves in (p < 0.05; r = 0.72), and double fault (p < 0.001; r = 0.85) percentages improved significantly more. As per the2nd tournament week vs. 1st tournament week comparison, men’s development of 2nd serve points won (p < 0.05; r = 0.68)and double fault (p < 0.01; r = 0.86) percentages improved significantly more.Conclusions. The study revealed serve efficiency development advantages for men over women in both comparisons, especiallyregarding the quality of the 2nd serve, whereas no development advantages in favour of women over men could beobserved in any analysed parameter, indicating possible needs to adapt elite women’s coaching.Key words: elite, coaching, practice, gender, game opening, Wimbledon
M3 - Journal articles
SN - 1899-1955
SN - 1732-3991
VL - 23
SP - 128
EP - 137
JO - Human movement
JF - Human movement
IS - 2
ER -