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Comparison Of Service Efficiency Between Male And Female Doubles At Professional Tennis Player

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Article 1: “A comparison of service efficiency between players of male and female doubles at professional tennis tournament”

1. The article introduces the reader to the general topic in the first sentence by stating statistical data. This data is about the percentage of serve shot used in the game compared to all shots used in the game of tennis. I think this is a good way to attract attention of the reader because statistics highlight the fact about importance of the serve to a tennis player.
2. Problem is stated as it affects all of the women tennis players. Women’s serve does not reach the same speed as men’s serve due to various reasons. It is a problem because in that case more shots are performed from the baseline and that decreases chances of winning service games for the server.
3. Research by Carboch …show more content…

There was lack of knowledge about service effects on the different tennis surfaces in males and female’s doubles matches and it was suggested that umpires’ scorecards can help to fill a gap in knowledge.

Article 2: “Toss differences between the slice serve and the kick serve in tennis”
1. The article introduce the reader to the general topic in the first sentence by using statistical data. That data states the fact about importance of serve in the tennis match. “The tennis serve represents 45% (French Open) to 60% (Wimbledon) of the total number of strokes in a match (Johnson, McHugh, Wood, & Kibler, 2006; O’Donoghue & Ingram, 2001).”
2. The problem identified in the article is that serve has a big effect for every tennis player and it is stated in the research article that on every court surface serve has the biggest impact to the outcome of the game.
3. Tennis serve can reach higher speed than 200 kilometers per hour. According to the research conducted by Dunlop (2000) and Kleinoder (2001), returner have around 0.5 to 1.2 seconds in order to react and make a return. Evidence from the literature was used in order to show the importance of the

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