(1.Departmemt of Physical Education,Hunan Normal University,Changsha 410081,China;2.School of Education Science,Hunan Normal University,Changsha 410081,China) Abstract: In order to observed the characteristics of perceptual anticipation of tennis players at different levels for ball hitting routes at different time points, the authors divided the testees into such 3 levels as professional group, proficient group (level 2 player group) and novice group, in the experiment, used pictures showing different time points at stalemate stages in tennis matches as materials for anticipation, let the testees make a quick and good de-termination about ball hitting routes by seeing such pictures, and revealed the following findings: in terms of correct rate, the correct rate of straight ball hitting routes was significantly lower than that of diagonal ball hitting routes; in terms of the correct rate of ball hitting routes, the professional group’s was significantly higher than the level 2 player group’s, the level 2 player group’s was significantly higher than the novice group’s; the correct rate of time point t0 was significantly lower than those of other time points, the correct rate of time point t1 was significantly lower than those of time points t2 and t3, the difference between the correct rates of time points t2 and t3 was not sig-nificant; while in terms of response time, the response time for straight ball hitting routes was significantly longer than that for diagonal ball hitting routes, the anticipation response time of the professional group was significantly shorter than that of the level 2 player group, the anticipation response time of the level 2 player group was signifi-cantly shorter than that of the novice group; moreover, the response time for time point t0 was significantly longer those for other time points, the response time for time point t1 was significantly longer those for time points t2 and t3, the difference between response times for time points time t2 and t3 was not significant. The experiment findings in-dicated that the level of tennis players was positively correlative with their performance in anticipating ball hitting routes, which was specifically shown in that the professional group could make a correct anticipation at an earlier time point as compared with the novice group and the level 2 player group. Key words: sports psychology;ball hitting route;perceptual anticipation;tennis player |