Effect Of Adjunt Sports Specific Drill Training on Selected Fitness Parameters in Amateur Lawn Tennis Players

Abstract

Lawn tennis, game in which two opposing players or pairs of players use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size, weight, and bounce over a net on a rectangular court.

Tennis is characterized by the execution of a series of high intensity and explosive actions, sprints, changes of direction and abrupt deceleration; these specific movements put the tennis player under physical stress. 1 this component of training is as such termed as agility. The percentage of lower limb injuries in lawn tennis in players is 73%. 

Hence there is a need of designing an optimal conditioning program for improvement of agility and sprint performance which may reduce the risk of injuries and to improve the quality of performance. AIM was to find the effect of sports specific drill training on selected fitness parameters in amateur lawn tennis players. 50 purposive sample, using experimental study for 6 weeks in lawn tennis players. Result The pre and post training results of descriptive statistics and paired T test shows significant improvement in experimental group for  agility test  (t = 5.220 and p=<0.0001 )

And 10 meter sprint (t=5.432 and p= <0.0001)There is Statistically significant difference  post training with illionos agility test and ten meter sprint test in experimental group  as compared to control group was seen post training session. Conclusion The present study concluded an effect of sports specific drill training has effect on Agility test and sprint test timings.