Balance control, agility, eye-hand coordination for the sportive performance of amateur tennis players: A pilot study

This study aimed to compare balance performance, agility, eye-hand coordination between amateur tennis players and individuals doing recreational sports. 10 male tennis players of an amateur tennis club, with at least 3 years of tennis history and actively playing tennis, with a mean age of 18.40±0.50 years, a mean height of 175.30±3.56 cm, a mean body weight of 70.00±3.57 kg, and a mean body fat ratio of 22.10±1.25%, and 10 male university students with a mean age of 18.80±0.63 years, a mean height of 163.0±33.8 cm, a mean body weight of 69.8±2.62 kg, and a mean body fat ratio of 22.60±1.17%, who participated in weekly different physical activities for recreational purposes, were included in the study voluntarily. In the study, Y Balance test, Hexagonal test, Eye-hand coordination test were applied. In the analysis, the differences between the normally distributed variables were analyzed using the independent sample t-test. Differences between non-normally distributed variables were analyzed with the Mann-Whitney U test. Statistical significance level was accepted as p0.05) and that there was a significant difference in agility and eye-hand coordination reaction time between the groups (p