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Keywords
Tennis;
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the one-handed and the two-handed backhand strokes in tennis skill performance of beginning junior high students. Skill in the two backhand strokes was measured by performance on the Revised Breer-Miller Backhand Drive Test with Ball-Boy Modification. Fifty-four female seventh- and eighth-grade students from Malcolm Price Laboratory School were selected as subjects. Each class was randomly assigned to either Group A or Group Band administered the Revised Dyer Backboard Tennis Test used to classify students as beginners. The seventh-grade class was given instruction in the twohanded backhand stroke and the eighth-grade class was given instruction in the one-handed backhand stroke. The classes met every Tuesday and Thursday for 5 weeks of tennis instruction, with a daily instructional period of JO-minutes. One instructor was randomly assigned to subgroup A and the other instructor was randomly assigned to subgroup B within each class. Teaching objectives and instruction plans were identical. The F (1,46) of .33 indicated there was no significant difference between scores of the groups receiving instruction in the one-handed backhand and the groups receiving instruction in the two-handed backhand strokes. An F (1,46) of ,052 indicated there was no significant difference in the performance scores between the groups taught by instructor A and groups taught by instructor B. Further, the F (1,46) of .241 indicated there was no significant difference in scores due to the interaction between the instructor and the two backhand strokes. None of the null hypotheses were rejected since none of the F ratios were significant (p "d.05). Therefore, either the onehanded backhand or the two-handed backhand technique, depending upon the situation and preference of the instructor and/or player, could be an acceptable technique of teaching or learning a backhand stroke in tennis.
Year of Submission
1978
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services
First Advisor
Carol Cooper
Second Advisor
Elton E. Green
Third Advisor
David A. Whitsett
Date Original
1978
Object Description
1 PDF file (84 leaves)
Copyright
©1978 Deborah Kathleen Stetson
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Stetson, Deborah Kathleen, "A Comparative Study of the One-Handed and Two-Handed Backhand Strokes in Tennis" (1978). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 1839.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/1839
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