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Meadowcroft, A and Roberts, J 
ORCID: 0000-0001-6204-5325
(2026)
The influence of visual blur on the return-of-serve within tennis: evidence for separable performance effects.
International Journal of Sport Psychology, 57 (3).
pp. 201-214.
ISSN 0047-0767
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Abstract
The temporal demands of dynamic sports such as tennis, dictate the use of advance cues to anticipate and respond in time. It is a feature that often discriminates skilled athletes courtesy of their domain-specific perceptual-cognitive skills. Recent studies in this area have explored the influence of, and training under, visual blur. The present study aimed to elaborate on this using a more coupled setting. Skilled tennis players attempted a return-of-serve, while wearing lenses with Bangerter foils to induce different levels of blur. While the accuracy of anticipated direction remained relatively unaffected by the blur, the time it took to respond and elements of the return shot were adversely affected. These findings indicate separable effects of blur with a limited influence on key advance cues courtesy of the functionally specialised processing of ‘vision-for-action’. However, the decline in preparation and execution was likely due to related uncertainty and high-precision eye-hand coordination, respectively.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences; Sport Sciences; 4207 Sports science and exercise; 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; 5205 Social and personality psychology |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports |
| Divisions: | Sport and Exercise Sciences |
| Publisher: | Edizioni Luigi Pozzi srl |
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| Date of acceptance: | 13 August 2025 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 July 2026 |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2026 14:37 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2026 00:50 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.7352/IJSP.2026.57.201 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29036 |
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