Competition Anxietyin Relation to the Performance of Serving in Badminton

Abstract

Skill of the serving is the active element and the most important in getting the points because it is the key of playing and it is a skill that can through player predicts and determines the path of badminton which back by competitor, and then the player is initiative in attack and scoring and settle of the game, the psychological variables play an important role in comprehend of the player and the acquisition of skills, self-confidence and mastery performance through repetition and experience of success by following the scientific method which achieves the objectives set by the coaches, experts, and educators to access the best level of performance. The problem of the research is that players are performance of serving fast in doubles matches because of the small of serving play area in comparison single playas’ a result of fear of failure of serving that is caused by the lack of attention to psychological variables of players. The objective of this study to identify the relationship between the anxiety of competition and the level of performance of short back serving for badminton players, sample of the study is players Iraqi Middle Euphrates Universities in badminton and the number of players is 36 players from 8 Iraqi Universities, the researchers used a descriptive approach, and used a measure of competition anxiety which prepared by Rainer Martens and after statistical analysis the researchers found that competition anxiety level of study sample is with an average level, the number of repetition approximately (18) and the percentage is (50%)