Objectives and competences
• Raising awareness of the values of sport and, through this, influencing the formation of positive attitudes towards sport and towards a healthy lifestyle.
• Eliminating and preventing the consequences of lack of exercise and a care for improving psychophysical abilities, enhancing health.
• Effectively playing the game.
• Improving the technique and tactics of the tennis game to the level that enables an effective game.
• Knowledge and application of the basics tennis strokes.
• Mastering the basics of tennis in existing playing conditions.
• Ability to self-correct tennis stroke techniques.
• Knowledge of the basics of organizing learning and training of tennis.
• Gaining knowledge of entering a competition (within the confines of the subject).
• Ability to organize a competition.
• Understanding the impact of exercise on maintaining health and well-being, the response of the organism to physical effort and adapting to different forms of exercise.
Content (Syllabus outline)
The theoretical contents refer to:
• a healthy lifestyle,
• the importance of a proper diet,
• the specifics of the sport discipline (an overview of the evolution and progress of tennis, its techniques, rules and an overview of different forms of competitions).
Practical contents:
• Training basic technical elements (racket position, player position, movement technique, racket movements, stroke types and ball flight, execution of tennis strokes, their basic tactical use.
• Techniques and tactics of playing individually and doubles
Learning and teaching methods
The following methods and forms of teaching will be used in the program:
• the method of explanation and discussion (lectures),
• the method of demonstration.
Forms:
• frontal learning,
• individual learning,
• group learning.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and Understanding:
The student:
• demonstrates basic technical elements/strokes;
• explains the basics of teaching tennis strokes and organizing learning and training of tennis;
• uses suitable technical elements for playing an effective tennis game;
• enters a competition (as part of the subject).
Readings
• Pori, M., Pori, P., Pistotnik, B., Dolenec, A., Tomažin., Štirn, I. in Majerič, M. (2013). Športna rekreacija. Športna unija Slovenije, Fundacija za šport, Ljubljana.
• Pori, P., Pori, M., Jakovljević, M. in ščepanović, D. (2014). Zdrava vadba. Fakulteta za šport, Univerza v Ljubljani.
• Filipčič A. (2000). Tenis–tehnika in taktika. Ljubljana: Fakulteta za šport.
Prerequisits
Understanding the values of a healthy lifestyle, sport, physical exercise and the desire for acquiring additional knowledge and skills in individual sport disciplines.
