Interaction between service exercise and gender on field tennis service skills

Abstract

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the interaction between service exercise and gender on field tennis service skills. Materials and Methods. The population in this study were Faculty of Sports, Universitas Sebelas Maret students, totaling 85 male students and 27 female students. The sample used was 24 male students and 24 female students. Collecting data on tennis serve skills using the Hewitt Tennis Achievement Test. The skill of serving tennis in court tennis is the accuracy and constancy of a tennis player's serve to start the game and being able to be skilled in serving tennis. The number of hits/ball contact with the racket is 10 hits with the target. To test the statistical hypothesis, the Tukey test was used at a significance level of α = 0,05 using SPSS 25. Results. The results of data analysis showed that at α = 0.05 a maximum value of 0.000 < α 0.05 was obtained , for service training a maximum average value of 28.79 was obtained and an average minimum value was obtained 27.54 while gender obtained an average maximum value of 32.04 and an average minimum value of 23.79 so that a decision could be made that reject H0 and accept H1. Conclusions. So it can be concluded that there is an interaction between service training and gender on the service skills. The form of interaction shown by the results of this calculation provides a clear reason that the diversity of student characteristics will have an impact on the difference in service training, in this case a service training should pay attention to aspects of physical ability in this case gender in the implementation of training, so between service training and gender will influence each other and interact positively in the training process, especially in achieving the results of service skills  which is good.