Tennis Service Performance in Beginners: The Effect of Instructional Self-Talk Combined With Motor Imagery

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect motor imagery (MI) combined with instructional self-talk on service performance in young novice tennis players. participants were assigned one three groups: control, MI, or MI + self-talk. They performed a pretest (10 serves), participated 5 days intervention sessions, and finally posttest similar pretest. During 20 serves. control group not given any instructions other than verbal steps serve. Before each serve, instructed imagine performing successful serve towards “correct” box. had repeat during before serving. results original revealed that only groups increased their percentage success technical quality scores from pre- posttest. In addition, at posttest, higher speeds groups. beneficial using and/or short interventions practical applications are discussed.