Biomechanics in the service of intervention in sport? Interview with Caroline Martin

This article aims to describe the contribution of “life sciences” to research on interventions in racket sports. Based on an interview with Caroline Martin, a researcher on the biomechanics of the tennis serve, several questions are discussed: (1) What are the objectives, the methods, and the main results of this research?; (2) What are the necessary conditions to ensure that this research has real social utility for the participants?; (3) In the context of the current development of mixed methods in sport science, how can observational data (for example biomechanical) be used in conjunction with data about the athletes’ intrinsic experience?; (4) While this research focuses on the serve, to what extent is it possible to study other dimensions of the tennis player’s activity, and other racket sports more broadly?