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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 TenenbaumThe 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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40Issue number
2Page range
49-59Publication title
Journal of Sport and Exercise PsychologyISSN
1543-2904External DOI
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Human KineticsFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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2018-05-29Legacy creation date
2018-05-27Legacy 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.Usage metrics
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