Analysis of the visual skills of tennis players.

Do expert tennis players have better visual skills? In tennis, as in many other disciplines of sport, fine spatio-temporal resolution is required to reach optimal performance. 

While many studies on tennis have focused on anticipatory skills or decision making, fewer have investigated the underlying visual perception abilities. In this project, we used a battery of seven visual tests that allowed us to assess which kind of visual information processing is performed better by tennis players than other athletes (triathletes) and non-athletes. 

We found that certain time-related skills, such as speed discrimination, are superior in tennis players compared to non-athletes and triathletes. Such tasks might be used to improve tennis performance in the future.