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Article: Perception skills keep top tennis players on the ball
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- June 11, 2008
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TOP Tennis players have powers of perception that allow them to
judge speed and motion better than others, a study has found.
The findings could explain why players like five times Wimbledon
champion Roger Federer are so hard to beat.
A team from Federer's home country, Switzerland, conducted tests
on 18 tennis players who competed at a national level.
Their performance was compared with that of 18 national-level
triathletes who did not play tennis, and 19 non-athletes.
In one test, participants had to watch two displays of moving
dots on a computer screen and select which were travelling faster.
Tennis players were better at telling which display had the
fastest dots, especially when they ...