On-court position and handedness in visual anticipation of stroke direction in tennis

摘要: Abstract Objectives In racket sports, players integrate information picked up from their opponent's kinematics and contextual cues like on-court position into shot outcome anticipation. view of suggested difficulties with anticipating left-handed opponents' action intentions, here we examined whether an handedness interacts position-dependency in visual Design method Following a 2 (Group) x (Handedness) (Position) 3 (Temporal Occlusion) factorial design, 20 tennis non-players predicted directional temporally manipulated point-light animations identical left- right-handed forehand groundstrokes performed near vs. far the court's midline. Results Tennis players' response selection was mostly affected by position, particularly at early stage hitting movement. Opponents' similarly both groups (i.e., bias towards down-the-line predictions against strokes occluded racket-ball-contact), but it did not interact position. Conclusions Findings highlight that to some extent as well, appears relevant for skilled anticipation tennis.