The effects of body composition, antropometric measurements and specific exercises of tennis players on service

Purpose: Serving on tennis is an important criteria to specify performance of the mach. The aim of this study is to discover relations between the ball speed on tennis serve and antropometric measurements. The test subjects of this study was composed of competitive tennis players with two groups which are experimental (n=10) and control group (n=10). Experimental group's of this study age average was 22.8±1.62; and control group's age average 18±0.0. Materials and methods: Test subjects were the "Education of Tennis Trainner Department in Ege University" and "Tennis Club" in İzmir city. Radar veichle was used to record first and last speed of serve of groups, which were randomly selected, and electronical stadiometer veichle was used to record high and weigh parameters. Beside those there were 4 parameters measurement were taken from 4 different parf of body. Body composition (body fat ratio) was taken by skinfold measuring method from 7 righ part of body by the Harpenden Caliper. 6 weeks 11 different specific exercises were applied as 8- 10 hours per week in Ege Universty Pyscial Education and Sports. SPSS 21.0 was used statistical analysis and significant level "P" was set to 0.05 (p<0.05). Results: The first and last test of serve speed of experimental and control groups have significant differences (p<0.01). Therefore there is a significant difference on increasing of serve speed percentage between experimental and control groups. There were significant differences on antropometric measurements between first and last test of experimental group. In conclusion 6 weeks specific exercises have a positive effects on serve speed of tennis players.