Effects of using Direct Play Exercise on Learning Techniques of the Overhand Serve and the Receive

The researchers dealt with the importance of learning using direct play exercise, since it is a new and modern scientific foundation through which the process of linking the technique of the skillful performance of the tennis overhand serve and the receive to the direct play exercises. This could create an environment close to the actual play in learning motor skills in volleyball. The research aims to set direct play exercises within a learning program imitating the reality of actual play, detect the effects of direct playing exercises on learning the technical performance of the overhand serve and the receive in volleyball.The researchers used the experimental method for it is convenient to the nature of the research. The research community consists of 64 female students from the second-year students in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at University of Mosul for the academic year 2021-2022. The sample included 26 female students, divided at random by lot into two groups, the experimental groups, with13 subjects and the control group with 13 subjects. The researchers had set a combination direct play exercises and linked to the skills in question. the sample is subjected to a learning program of the skills in question