Tennis serve
Introduction to tennis
Tennis is a sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.
Major bones
BONES
The types of major bones used when serving a tennis ball are all of the bones in your arms, and all the bones in the leg. Basically every major bone and muscle is used to play tennis.
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Carpals (wrist): to flick and move the racquet.
Humerus, radius, ulna (arms) : to support your wrist and fingers when hitting the ball, it also providers power when hitting the ball.
Clavicle, scapular and the upper humerus (shoulder): needed to pivot and for serving.
Pelvis, Sacrum and Coccyx (Hip): Needed to align your body to hit the ball. Tarsals, Metacarpals, Phalanges (foot): To move, run, balance move and for foot wear.
Talus (Ankles): To start and stop quickly. Tibia, Patella (Knee): To bend over to hit the lower shots.
Muscles used in tennis serve
When serving a tennis ball, all the muscles of the body are involved, since you are throwing a ball up, taking a step back and then swinging your arm forward to hit a ball using the whole of your body for follow-through.
The muscle used in a tennis
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They may be rotational forces in the shoulder joint, elbow and wrist, as well as with the cervical vertebrae as you turn your head to watch the ball and make contact with it using the racket.
Types of joints
• Synovial Joints
Ball and Socket Joint – wind up for a pitch and Shoulder and Hip
Hinge Joint – wave your arm, Elbow, Knee and Ankle
Pivot Joint – nodding your head, Radio-Ulnar Joint and Atlas/Axis Joint
Condyloid Joint – hand, Wrist
Gliding Joint - Spine between adjacent bony processes
Saddle Joint – Giving a Thumbs
Health component and skill component
There are a wide range of fitness components that contribute to successful tennis performance. More than one is usually important.
Health component
• Muscular Strength
Tennis is a very effective an impact game, and each time you strike or run for the tennis ball your body absorbs serious impact.
To stand this force you need both upper and lower body strength. Including strength training in your off-court workout is a smart move.
Traditional weight lifting (with dumbbells, barbells, or weight machines) is an excellent way to develop muscular strength. You can also use exercise bands or tubes, body weight exercises (push-ups, and body squats) and medicine balls.
Skill
Flexion is the bending of a joint so that the angle between the two bones decreases. The primary muscles that flex the knee are a group collectively known as “hamstrings.” The hamstrings consist of the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, semimembranosus. The muscles that assist in flexion are the sartorius, gracilis,...
Years of playing the game and not improving, Gawande incidentally finds himself play tennis with a young man who is a tennis couch. The young man gives Gawande a tip about keeping his feet under his body when hitting the ball. At first he is uncertain, stating, “My serve had always been the best part of my game….. With a few minutes of tinkering, he’d added at least ten miles an hour to my serve. I was serving harder than I ever had in my life” (Gawande, 2011, p.3).
During dynamic activities, the bony congruity of the joint surface and the acetabular labrum limit the magnitude of translation forces, while the ligamentous and muscular structures control rotational forces at the hip joint. Physiological features of the joint cartilage and synovium manage the residual forces and joint reaction forces that
Broer was the first to call attention to the similarity of movement patterns used in seemingly dissimilar activities such as the baseball pitch, the badminton clear, and the tennis serve. Objective evidence of such similarities between throwing and striking activities within each of the three major upper-extremity patterns; overarm, sidearm and underarm. The representative activities from these categories across throwing patterns also showed great similarity in the muscular action of the lower extremity. Atwater distinguished between the overarm and sidearm throwing patterns in terms of the direction in which the trunk laterally flexed. When lateral flexion occurred away from the throwing arm, and overarm pattern was used; lateral flexion toward the throwing arm indicated a sidearm pattern. The underarm patter is distinguished by motion predominantly in a sagittal plane with the hand below the waist. Each pattern involves a preparatory movement referred to as a backswing, or windup, followed by the establishment of a base of support prior to the initiation of the force phase and ending in the follow-through. The base of support in the direction of the force application; forward and backward is a distinguishing feature of skill level. It has been well documented that more highly skilled individuals have longer strides. Once the base has been established, the more proximal segments begin the force application phase while the more distal segments complete the backswing.
Pivot Joint This type of joint is also known as a rotary joint and allows only one type of movement, rotational movement which occurs when bone rotates on or around another bone, an example of this type of joint includes the joint of the first and second vertebrae of the neck that allows the head to move back and forth, the joint in the wrist which allows the palm to be turned facing upwards and facing downwards, this type of joint is incredibly important because it allows the bones to move freely while rotating, without this type of joint we wouldn’t be able move our head or our hands and wrists. The bones in a pivot joint are connected by ligaments to allow flexible side to side movement. Different types of bones are connected in a joint, for example, irregular bones like the vertebra and the skull is connected in a pivot joint. Hinge Joint
The innovations in the material of the tennis racquet — the strings and the frame — have changed tennis throughout the years; thus, fundamentally changing the game by allowing players to hit with more power, spin, and racquet speed. Many star professional tennis players in the past and present use new technology to help take their game to new levels. The change from a wooden racquet to a carbon-fiber tennis racquet and the change from cow gut strings to non-gut synthetic strings have changed the way tennis is played.
Racquetball is a competitive game in which a strung racquet is used to serve and return the ball.
Thibodeau, G., & Patton, K. (1993). Chapter ten: Anatomy of the muscular system. In Anatomy and physiology (1st ed., p. 252). St Louis: MO: Mosby.
There is moving joints where it allows a person to either bend or twist. However, some of the joints allow us to move in freely motion while others only allow little movement at all. There are two kinds of joints. One of the joints is called hinge joint which tolerates movements back and forth in the single direction or it connects the upper part of the body, humerus, ulna, and the lower part. A ball and socket joint is also another joint that allows for a lot of movement in all directions possible like a ball in a socket (Marieb 259). Shoulders and hips are the example of the ball and socket joint. The muscles are connected to bones by tendons, bones are connected to each other by other bones itself. Also, the bones are held together at the joint by ligaments. The ligament is like a band of tissue or the white part of the muscle. Between the joints of a bone, rubbery tissue can be found and called cartilage. Cartilage is like the cushion for the bone in which acts as a shock
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