| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 運動保健學系 === 103 === Research background: Tennis has been already known for one of the most popular ball sports. Tennis game requires a combination of strength, speed, balance, and controlling the ball successfully and back to the opponant’s court. Important factors to win a tennis game includes high ball velocity, accuracy of hitting, good physical fitness and mental strength . Recently functional training has been well applied to sport-specific training and demonstrated great efficacy in improving performance. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a short-term function training for tennis player on stroking performance. Methods: Fifteen recreational tennis players participated in this study. Ten 10 players were assigned to the experimental group and 5 players to the control group. Experimental group underwent a short-term functional training and control group only continued their regular tennis training routine. Measurements were taken before and after the training, including stroking performance, physical fitness, and a questionnaire on mental strength. Results: After the eight-week tennis functional training, the experimental group and the control group demonstrated similar stroking performance without significant difference, however, the experimental group showed better physical fitness and mental strength. Discussion: Possible factors resulted the insignificant change in stroking performance include a in sufficient stimulation and short duration of training load for recreational tennis players. Conclusion: A short-term functional training improved the physical fitness and mental strength of recreational tennis players, but didn’t significantly change the stroking performance. The study results suggest that tennis training shall incorporate sport-specific functional training. Further studies are warranted to implement more weeks and higher intensity for function training to show the training efficacy on stroking.
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