• Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.147-158
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to analyze the kinematical variables involved in two types of service motion in tennis pinpoint and platform stance, to find the fastest serving method. Seven skilled high school tennis players participated, and the kinematics were recorded by the Vicon motion analysis system. For the gathering and analysis of the data workstation, bodybuilder and polygon were used. During the back swing for the pinpoint stance, as the back leg moves forward the COM and the racquet moves more, thus taking 0.04 seconds longer than the platform stance. The body of the subject takes a bow-shape as the subject's foot moves back and their hip moves forward. This movement enables the subject to create more power during the backswing to impact. It also increases the spread of the COM racquet and the serve speed is increase. As there is no forward movement of the foot during the backswing of the platform stance, the COM and the racquet move less and thus the time required is shorter than that for the pinpoint stance by 0.04seconds. Similarly, the time spent creating the power for the serve is shortened, the COM racquet is narrower and the speed is lessened. However, the advantage of this serve is that it increases the stability.

• Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.41-48
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• 2008

The purpose of this study was to analyze the lower extremities joint moment pattern by two types of service motion in tennis pinpoint and platform stance. Seven skilled high school tennis players participated, and the kinematics were recorded by the Vicon motion analysis system. For the gathering and analysis of the data Workstation, Bodybuilder and polygon were used. joint moments and Ground Reaction Forces for the phases involved were analyzed with the following results. There was a different moment pattern for the lower extremities between the two serve motions. For the platform stance there was only a large dorsal flexion moment but for the pinpoint stance there were other large moments. The flexion and maximum moment of the lower extremities occurred at the point of change from back swing and to the forward swing motion. Therefore, this data provides evidence that there is a high risk of injury at this point.