EFFECT OF SPECIFIC TRAINING PROGRAMME ON SELECTED SKILL PERFORMANCE VARIABLES OF MEN TENNIS PLAYERS

S.ARIVAZHAKAN; Dr.Ch.V.S.T.SAIKUMAR

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2018

EFFECT OF SPECIFIC TRAINING PROGRAMME ON SELECTED SKILL PERFORMANCE VARIABLES OF MEN TENNIS PLAYERS

S. Arivazhakan, Dr. Ch. V. S. T. Saikumar

Abstract :

The study was to find out the effect of specific training programme on selected skill performance variables of men tennis players. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty college level tennis players (n= 30) from SRKV Maruthi College of Physical Education and faculty of GAPEY, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Coimbatore were selected as subjects. Their age are ranged from 18 to 25 years. All the subjects were divided in to two groups with 15 subjects each as experimental and control group. Group-I underwent specific training for a period of twelve weeks of five days per week and group-II acted as control who did not participate in any special training other than the regular routine. The skill performance variables such as forehand and backhand drive were selected as dependent variables. Forehand and backhand drive was tested by using hewitt�s forehand and backhand test in points. Pre and post test random group design was used for this study. The dependent �t� test was applied to determine the difference between the means of two group. To find out whether there was any significant difference between the experimental and control groups on adjusted post test means the analysis of covariance was used. To test the level of significant of difference between the means 0.05 level of confidence was fixed. The result of the study shows that, there was a significant improvement takes place on forehand drive and backhand drive of college level tennis players due to the effect of twelve weeks of specific training. And also concluded that, there was a significant difference exists between experimental and control groups on forehand drive and backhand drive. The control group did not improve selected criterion variables.