The acute effect of attentional focus on tennis serve performance among Kelantan States athletes / Abdul Alif Ahlami Choohaimi

The purpose of this was to determine the acute effect of attentional focus on tennis
serve performance amongst Kelantan state athletes in one week's intervention. This
study used purposive sampling where all the subjects for this study were from
Kelantan Tennis State Athletes. Total of eighteen subjects participated as follow:
(Age: 13.72 ± 2.19, Gender: 1.56 ± 0.51, BMI: 1.61± 0.77) subjects where 18 subject
from various school in Kelantan. All the subjects were randomly divided into three
groups, the internal focus group (n = 6), the external focus group (n = 6) and the
control group (n = 6). In acquisition test all subjects were given 5 blocks of 5 trials
for familiarization of serve skill. After finish every block of trial the received five
attentional instruction depending on their group either external focus or internal
focus while control group was not given any instruction they can use any internal or
external instruction while execute the serve skill. Result indicated that external focus
group was the highest significant of p <0.05 = 0.03 compared to internal focus and
control group in serving scoring. As conclusion, the findings in this study indicated
that the external focus group was shows significant improvement compared to other
group in tennis serving scoring during the retention test.