Quick and accurate eye movements are essential to athletic success.
Most sports require eye movement in a variety of directions.
Saccadic eye movements are used to direct foveal fixation towards objects of interest.
Saccades depend on information from the periphery of the retina to tell the brain that there is something of interest in the field that should be recognized .
There are many articles looking at eye movements in sports:
An excellent early article by: Michael F. Land and Peter McLeod From eye movements to actions: how batsmen hit the ball Nature Neuroscience 3, 1340 - 1345 (2000) found that performance of cricket players’ ability to hit was directly associated with eye movements.
There have been many articles of baseball players performance being influenced by eye movements e.g.Uchida Y, Kudoh D, Murakami A, Honda M, Kitazawa S (2012) Origins of Superior Dynamic Visual Acuity in Baseball Players: Superior Eye Movements or Superior Image Processing. PLoS ONE 7(2): e31530 (you will find a lot references in this article for other baseball studies)
You can also find more references for eye movements in baseball, volleyball, cricket, squash and table tennis in : Miriam Spering , Alexander C. Schütz , Doris I. Braun , Karl R. Gegenfurtner Keep your eyes on the ball: smooth pursuit eye movements enhance prediction of visual motion Journal of Neurophysiology 2011 . 105 1756-1767
As per my opinion there is relation between Eye speed and the level of Skills Performance in sports. As because the skills is being executed to overcome the opponents or the situations that arises during the sports activities and the degree of difficulty will be assessed through the vision and the mobility of CNS. Better vision better perception and response.
Werner Helsen (Belgium) has published a lot about eye movement registration and skill performance in sports.
I hope its helpfull
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