Sports performance is a complex construct of various components. In addition to the athletes' technical and tactical skills, medical, physiotherapeutic and sports psychological care, active regeneration, nutrition and performance analysis (PA) play an increasingly important role.
Due to the integration of new innovative technologies and methods, an enormous development in the field of PA can be observed in table tennis in recent years.
Starting from this, the dissertation first presents the status quo of scientific PA in table tennis (1). This is followed by a proposal for a sports specific observational system with a positive cost/benefit calculation (2) and a new analysis approach (3) to improve support for coaches and athletes and to improve the knowledge about PA and the popularity and acceptance of PA in the table tennis community.
The published review article gives an overview about existing popular methods in performance/match analysis in table tennis such as performance indices or simulative approaches for theoretical PA approaches and additionally introduces two best practice examples (Japan and China) for practical PA approaches. Additionally, research topics and areas that need more investigation and necessary developments are identified. The article serves as a reference work and a starting point for scientists who are interested in the field of PA in table tennis.
The second article is a pioneer study on game characteristics in elite para table tennis and gives a first insight in the basic game characteristics rally length and impact of serve in elite para table tennis (class 1-10). The influence of sex, standing or sitting position of the player and the severity of the impairment on these variables are investigated. Overall, the study serves as a starting point for future studies on para table tennis with more in-depth analysis, especially in the technical/tactical area.
The third study introduces a new structural model for a table tennis rally including the “first offensive shot” (FOS) as the central point of a rally. Consequently, a corresponding observational system was also developed for this. Besides the various gained information about the FOS behaviour of men and women of different level categories itself (e.g. techniques used for FOSs, shot number of the FOSs, winning probability for the FOS player), an important innovation of this study is also the shot-number-independent approach of the technical/tactical analysis of the FOS coming with the introduced model and the used observational system.
Many different aspects and areas of PA in table tennis are covered by this dissertation. Regarding the methodology, known approaches are applied to new samples, but also new approaches are developed and introduced. Paralympic table tennis is covered with a fundamental study and Olympic table tennis, for which fundamental studies are already available, is covered with an in-depth study on a very important and yet unresearched characteristic of the sport.
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Sports performance is a complex construct of various components. In addition to the athletes' technical and tactical skills, medical, physiotherapeutic and sports psychological care, active regeneration, nutrition and performance analysis (PA) play an increasingly important role.
Due to the integration of new innovative technologies and methods, an enormous development in the field of PA can be observed in table tennis in recent years.
Starting from this, the dissertation first presents the st...
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