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This study examined the associations between visual skills and match-based serve reception performance in elite male volleyball outside hitters.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Twenty-four elite male volleyball outside hitters were included. Ten visual skills were assessed using the Senaptec Sensory Station, and season-long serve reception performance was analyzed using the Data Volley system. Perfect serve reception rate (#%), defined as the percentage of receptions rated as perfect out of the total number of individual serve receptions, was used as the match-based performance indicator.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Pearson correlation analysis showed that perfect serve reception rate was strongly associated with eye-hand coordination (r = \u22120.778, p &amp;lt; 0.001), near\/far quickness (r = 0.756, p &amp;lt; 0.001), and reaction time (r = \u22120.746, p &amp;lt; 0.001). A theory-driven parsimonious regression model suggested that these three variables were independently associated with perfect serve reception rate in this sample.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Selected visual skills, particularly eye-hand coordination, near\/far quickness, and reaction time, are associated with serve reception performance in elite male volleyball outside hitters. Visual skills assessment may provide supplementary information for understanding individual differences in serve reception performance, although these findings should be interpreted cautiously given the cross-sectional design and small sample size.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2026.1846247","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,17]],"date-time":"2026-06-17T04:49:59Z","timestamp":1781671799000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Associations between visual skills and serve reception performance in elite male volleyball outside hitters"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Xiushen","family":"Dong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University","place":["Changsha, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dongxu","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Education, Tsinghua University","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuqing","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physical Education, Wuhan Sports University","place":["Wuhan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University","place":["Changsha, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xinhong","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University","place":["Changsha, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Congcong","family":"Weng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physical Education, Jiaxing University","place":["Jiaxing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiayu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physical Education, Hubei University","place":["Wuhan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qiangquan","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Education, Ningxia Normal University","place":["Guyuan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Youlin","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Education, Dalian University","place":["Dalian, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingtao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physical Education, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine","place":["Jinan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuenian","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Physical Education, Hunan Normal University","place":["Changsha, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"299","DOI":"10.2307\/1421343","article-title":"Fundamentals of skill","volume":"83","author":"Adams","year":"1970","journal-title":"Am. 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