This month’s collection brings together recent studies of Tennis from many angles including the history and roots of the sport; the science and technology behind the sport; the sociological aspects of the sport and much more. Enjoy free access until 30 June 2013 to the articles included, which range from business, management, history, politics and policy to science, medicine, sociology and philosophy.
Business and Management
- It’s a Different Game You Go to Watch: Competitive Balance in Men’s and Women’s TennisCind Du Bois & Bruno Heyndels
- Sport Commitment, Participation Frequency and Purchase Intention Segmentation based on Age, Gender, Income and Skill Level with US Tennis ParticipantsJonathan Casper
- Should I stay or should I go? Selecting a date for the Australian Tennis OpenThomas Mccarthy & Stephen Frawley
History, Politics and Policy
- Mixed Doubles: Political Hegemony, Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Australian Open Tennis ChampionshipsAlistair John, Bob Stewart & Brent McDonald
- Grass Roots: The Development of Tennis in Britain, 1918–1978Joyce Kay
- Gender and Etiquette in British Lawn Tennis 1870–1939: A Case Study of ‘Mixed Doubles’Robert J. Lake
- Social Class, Etiquette and Behavioural Restraint in British Lawn Tennis, 1870–1939Robert J. Lake
- Gender Regulation: Renée Richards RevisitedLindsay Parks Pieper
- Good governance and anti-doping policy: an international federation viewStuart Miller
- Gender, Theory and Sport: The Formative Years of Tennis and SnowboardingBen Anderson
- The Tennis Courts of LyonDavid Best
Science and Medicine
- The effect of biofeedback on tennis service accuracyShaun M. Galloway
- Winning matches in Grand Slam men’s singles: An analysis of player performance-related variables from 1991 to 2008Shang-Min Ma, Chao-Chin Liu, Yue Tan & Shang-Chun Ma
- The Hit & Turn Tennis Test: An acoustically controlled endurance test for tennis playersAlexander Ferrauti, Vanessa Kinner & Jaime Fernandez-Fernandez
- How does the tennis serve technique influence the serve-and-volley?Caroline Martin, Benoit Bideau, Guillaume Nicolas, Paul Delamarchea & Richard Kulpa
- Quantifying the nature of anticipation in professional tennisCeline Triolet, Nicolas Benguigui, Cyrille Le Runigo & A. Mark Williams
- Home advantage in professional tennisRuud H. Koning
- The interaction between the tennis court and the player: how does surface affect leg stiffness?Javier Maquirriain
- Supination control increases performance in sideward cutting movements in tennisSalvador Llana-Belloch, Gabriel Brizuela, Pedro Pérez-Soriano, Ana C. García-Belenguer & Miguel Crespo
- Ball spin in the tennis serve: spin rate and axis of rotationShinji Sakurai, Machar Reidb & Bruce Elliott
- Serving to different locations: set-up, toss, and racket kinematics of the professional tennis serveMachar Reid, David Whiteside & Bruce Elliott
- Association between body height and serve speed in elite tennis playersFrantisek Vaverka & Miroslav Cernosek
- Tennis forehand kinematics change as post-impact ball speed is alteredMatthew K. Seeley, Merrill D. Funk, William Matthew Denning, Ronald L. Hager & J. Ty Hopkins
- Ball spin in the tennis serve: spin rate and axis of rotationShinji Sakurai, Machar Reid & Bruce Elliott
- Review of tennis serve motion analysis and the biomechanics of three serve types with implications for injuryGeoffrey D. Abrams, Alison L. Sheets, Thomas P. Andriacchiac & Marc R. Safran
- Professional tennis players’ serve: correlation between segmental angular momentums and ball velocityCaroline Martin, Richard Kulpa, Paul Delamarche & Benoit Bideau
- The kick serve in tennisRod Cross
- Review of tennis ball aerodynamicsRabindra Mehta, Firoz Alam & Aleksandar Subic
- An analysis of competition in young tennis playersGema Torres-Luque, David Cabello-Manrique, Raquel Hernández-García & Nuria Garatachea
- Ranking benchmarks of top 100 players in men’s professional tennisMachar Reid & Craig Morris
- Differences in ball speed and accuracy of tennis groundstrokes between elite and high-performance playersJohannes Landlinger, Thomas Stöggl, Stefan Lindinger, Herbert Wagnera & Erich Müller
- Physiological demands of match-play in elite tennis: A case studyRodrigo V. Gomes, Aaron J. Coutts, Luis Viveiros & Marcelo S. Aokia
- Culture, individual differences, and situation: Influence on coping in French and Chinese table tennis playersSylvain Laborde, Min You, Fabrice Dosseville & Agnès Salinas
- The probability of winning break points in Grand Slam men’s singles tennisGareth Knight & Peter O’Donoghue
- Effects of neuromuscular function and split step on reaction speed in simulated tennis responseMarko J. J. Nieminen, Jarmo M. Piirainen, Jukka A.
Sociology and Philosophy
- Tennis Technologies: De-Skilling and Re-Skilling Players and the Implications for the GameHeather Sheridan
- Judith Butler redux – the heterosexual matrix and the out lesbian athlete: Amélie Mauresmo, gender performance, and women’s professional tennisKristi Tredway
- British Spectators’ Perceptions of the Values and Norms in Selected Professional Sports: a Comparative Ethical SurveyMike McNamee, Carwyn Jones, Stephen‐Mark Cooper, Jerry Bingham, Julian North & Victoria Finley
- ‘Alicia in Wonderland’ at the ‘Little Lleyton Open’: selected Australian newspapers’ narratives about Alicia Molik and Lleyton Hewitt at the centennial Australian OpenJohn Vincent & Jane Crossman
- Understanding the Background Conditions of Skilled Movement in Sport: A Study of Searle’s ‘Background Capacities’Vegard Fusche Moe
