Dr. Ben Kibler is an orthopedic surgeon and Medical Director at the Lexington Clinic Sports Medicine Center, in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the Sports Medicine Advisor to the Professional Tennis Registry and also the Women’s Tennis Association. Ben is currently working with WTA tour officials and coaches on a study of women’s professional serving. Ben is a member of the USTA Sports Science Committee and was a founding member, and is Past President, of the Society for Tennis Medicine and Science. In 1998, he received PTR’s Stanley Plagenhoef Award for his work in sport science. In 2009, he received the International Tennis Hall of Fame Educational Merit Award.
Dr. Ben Kibler
Biomechanics
As a leading research sports science and past chairman of the USTA Sports Science Committee, Dr. Ben Kibler has been studying the literature on the serve as well as filming, studying, and evaluating players for years. Now he publishes some...
Biomechanics
In his first two articles, noted orthopedic surgeon and tennis researcher Dr. Ben Kibler has shared the results of his ongoing studies of the serve and elite servers. (Click Here for Part 1. Click Here for Part 2.) In this...
Biomechanics
As a leading research sports science and past chairman of the USTA Sports Science Committee, Dr. Ben Kibler has been studying the literature on the serve as well as filming, studying, and evaluating players for years. In this second article...