The Impact of Designing an Instructional Tool on Teaching the Forehand and Backhand Topspin Strokes in Tennis for Players Aged 12–14 Years

The importance of using instructional tools in tennis lies in the fact that proper skill acquisition depends on employing the most effective devices, tools, and modern technologies. These resources facilitate the learning of skills across varying movement paths and types, as they contribute to saving both time and effort for learners and instructors. This allows the instructional focus to remain solely on the skill itself, eliminating unnecessary movements. Given the complexity of executing tennis skills-particularly for beginners-there is often a noticeable difficulty in performing them correctly. Mastery of these skills requires considerable effort and sustained practice. As one of the researchers is an active tennis player and the other serves as a coach at the Al-Jadriya Academy for the 12-14 age group, it was observed that teaching fundamental skills to younger age categories demands extended periods of time and consistent instructional effort. The aim of this study was to design an instructional tool that supports the learning of the forehand and backhand groundstrokes with topspin for beginners. In addition, the study sought to examine the effect of this instructional tool on learning the forehand and backhand groundstrokes in tennis among individuals aged 12 to 14, and to assess its influence on the acquisition of topspin groundstrokes in the same skills within the research sample. The researchers hypothesized that there would be statistically significant differences in the post-test results between the experimental and control groups in learning to perform the forehand and backhand groundstrokes with topspin. Furthermore, they anticipated statistically significant differences between the post-tests of both groups in favour of the experimental group. The researchers employed the experimental method, using a two-group design (experimental and control) with both pre-tests and post-tests to assess learning outcomes. and this achieves one of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations in Iraq which is (Quality Education)