Serving to win: exploring serve-reception effectiveness in high-level male and female sitting volleyball players
Valentina Cavedon, Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, Caterina Biasiolo, Carlo Zancanaro, Chiara Milanese · 2024
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Valentina Cavedon and co-authors study how serve quality shapes winning in elite sitting volleyball, in a 2024 paper. Sitting volleyball is the Paralympic form of the game, played seated on a smaller court. The team logged 3,664 serves from the 2020 Paralympic Games and the 2022 World Championship, for men and women.
Each serve was graded from lost point to won point, with zone, technique, target, and reception type noted. Better serves raised the odds of winning the match step by step. Serves that forced a low reception pushed the receiving side into more errors later in the rally. The authors advise coaches to train players to manage serve risk, skip the front zone, and cut the receiving side's easy overhead plays.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Valentina Cavedon, Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, Caterina Biasiolo, Carlo Zancanaro, Chiara Milanese |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |