Vol. 5, Issue 1, Part A (2023)

The purpose of this study was to compare pre-competitive anxiety of university level male tennis and table tennis players. A total of twenty (N=20) male racket sports players with their age ranging between 17 to 23 years were selected. Further the total subjects were divided into 10 subjects each from tennis and table tennis sports practices. The subjects were selected from the Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education both Gwalior and Guwahati center. In order to measure the pre competitive anxiety level, questionnaires as the tool such as Illiniois self-evaluation Inventory and Sports competition anxiety test (SCAT) were implemented on racket players for data collection. In order to analyze the data collected descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation and comparative statistics of multivariate analysis of variance was employed and was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The multivariate analysis was found to be insignificant in the sub factors of pre-competitive anxiety between tennis and table tennis players as the value of Wilks’ lambda (0.673) was found to be insignificant at 0.05 level of significance (p= 0.297). The insignificant value of MANOVA depicted that the sub factors of pre-competitive anxiety was at similar levels when compared between the male tennis and table tennis sports players.