There is an increasing awareness of the necessity to evaluate the effects of tennis equipment in combination with players and the corresponding need for new methods of testing to be developed. This research has investigated the effectiveness of a range of objective measurements of player performance and their ability to quantity the effects of equipment modification and player fatigue. The hypothesis of this research was that if different designs of tennis equipment affect a player differently in terms of either accelerated/reduced fatigue or increased/reduced likelihood of injury, then there must be some changes in either the impact dynamics in terms of shock loading and vibration transmission, or through kinematic changes in terms of swing motion and biomechanics. Furthermore, it was hypothesised that using state-of-the-art instrumentation technologies in conjunction with a controlled experimental protocol, it may be possible to measure some of these changes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:413568 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Bowyer, Sonya |
| Publisher | Loughborough University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33909 |
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