Abstract In hard court tennis, players change direction by either stepping or sliding. The shoe–surface friction during these movements is crucial to player performance. Too little when may result in a slip. much attempting slide could cause the move only short distance, fail slide. To understand influence of tread design on experiments were performed individual shoe elements that replicated tr...

PURPOSE Individuals with physical disabilities in developing countries can experience many instances of psychosocial hardship. Although scholars have suggested that participation in sport can positively impact psychosocial health, few studies have explored this phenomenon within the disabled population of developing nations. METHODS Sixteen wheelchair tennis players were recruited across six ...

This work aims at recovering the temporal structure of a broadcast tennis video from an analysis of the raw footage. Our method relies on a statistical model of the interleaving of shots, in order to group shots into predefined classes representing structural elements of a tennis video. This stochastic modeling is performed in the global framework of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). The fundamental...

The purpose of this study was to compare court-movement variables and physiological responses to wheelchair tennis match-play when using low vs. standard compression tennis balls. Eleven wheelchair basketball players were monitored during repeated bouts of tennis (20 min) using both ball types. Graded and peak exercise tests were completed. For match-play, a data logger was used to record dista...

1 From the Laboratory of Structural Neurobiology, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KULeuven, Herestraat 49, PB 601, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium 2 Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A4800, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A. 3 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cam...

Thomas S. Jacques1, João B. Relvas1, Stephen Nishimura2, Robert Pytela4, Gwynneth M. Edwards3, Charles H. Streuli3 and Charles ffrench-Constant1,5,* 1Wellcome/CRC Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, CB2 1QR and Department of Medical Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of California San Francisco,...

They are many. The fi gures in Jacques-Louis David’s The Tennis Court Oath (Le Serment du Jeu de Paume) are spread out, lined up, piled on top of each other, cramped together, their bodies suggesting sheer quantity (fi g. 2.1). The ones who wave and peek through the large windows high on the walls extend the assembly beyond the depicted hall. It is impossible to tell where this human aggregatio...

tion and Exhibition was held in Portland, Oregon, in conjunction with the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The competition consisted of two events: (1) Office Navigation and (2) Clean Up the Tennis Court. The first event stressed navigation and planning. The second event stressed vision sensing and manipulation. In addition to the competition, there was a mobile robot ...

Abstract The regulatory landscape of professional tennis is scattered across several entities, each administering its own tournaments. This article focuses on disputes involving players. In this context, it identifies two major areas disputes, namely (encompassing disciplinary, doping and corruption offences) contractual. latter are chiefly resolved through litigation. Regulatory administered d...

Tennis champion Maria Sharapova has a habit of grunting when she plays on the court. Assume that also hitting ball in certain way situation. The on-court might be bad, but can situation classified as intelligent? fundamental questions here are follows: What is habit? relation between and skill? Is there such thing intelligent In this paper I expound nature by developing defending Rylean concept...