Tennis
Biomechanics research into tennis at 夜色直播app started by focusing on improving our understanding of factors that influence loading at the elbow in one handed backhand groundstrokes. This research was carried out in collaboration with from at 夜色直播app, with funding from and . The PhD students working on this project were , and Behzat Kentel. The main findings of this research were that off centre impacts and a tight grip resulted in the largest loading at the elbow and were therefore likely to be most important contributing factors to tennis elbow injuries.
More recently we have investigated the tennis serve and in particular speed and variability. The PhD student working on this research is , with the data collected on and also professional players at .
Publications
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- Mitchell, S.R., Jones, R., King, M.A. and Kotze, J., 2001, ''The Influence of Racket Inertia Properties on the Tennis Serve: A 3-Dimensional Analysis'',Medicine & Science in Tennis (Joint Newsletter of the STMS, ITF, ATP and Sanex WTA Tour), 6(1), 7.
- Mitchell, S.R., Jones, R. and King, M.A., 2000, ''Head Speed vs Racket Inertia in the Tennis Serve'', Sports Engineering, 3(2), 99-110, ISSN 1369-7072.