Model accurately predicts the movement of elite athletes to catch the ball in parabolic flight

How does a tennis player like Carlos Alcaraz decide where to run to return Novak Djokovic’s ball by just looking at the ball’s initial position? These behaviors, so common in elite athletes, are difficult to explain with current computational models, which assume that the players must continuously follow the ball with their eyes.

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