A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BALL VELOCITY WHILE PLAYING WITH DIFFERENT RACKET COVERINGS IN TABLE TENNIS
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https://doi.org/10.55968/ijobsms.v12i01.460Keywords:
Table Tennis, Racket Covering, Ball Velocity, Radar Gun.Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the ball velocity whilst playing forehand drive, forehand flick and forehand smash with two different racket coverings, i.e., inverted and short-pimpled.Ten female university-level table tennis players (20.0±3.5 years, 55.3±5.8 kg, 165.7±3.4 cm), who had sufficient game experience, were recruited for the study. Prior to data collection, it was ensured that all participants were physically fit and healthy to perform the task. Ball velocity was chosen as a kinematic variable. Two different racket coverings i.e., Inverted (without pips) and Short-pips were used while playing three different table tennis strokes i.e., forehand drive, forehand flick and forehand smash. The unit of measurement was kilometre per hour (kph). For the comparative analysis, IBM SPSS 26 software was used. The paired t-test was used as a tool to compare the findings, and the level of significance was set at 0.05.The study’s result indicated that out of the three strokes, two strokes i.e., forehand drive and forehand smash showed a significant difference between playing with different racket coverings. Whereas forehand flick neither possessed a greater amount of velocity in comparison to the other two strokes, nor a significant difference was found between different racket coverings’ velocity recordings.While playing forehand flick, there was no significant difference between inverted and short-pips racket coverings. However, significant differences were found while playing forehand drive and forehand smash with different racket coverings, in which short-pips racket covering possessed a higher amount of ball velocity than the inverted racket covering. This may be due to the fact that the conical pimples of the short-pips push the light table tennis ball with a greater force and hence a greater ball velocity was observed when playing with short-pips racket covering.
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