Tennis Confidence: Play Functional Tennis
April 10, 2009 by PatrickCohn
In my tennis confidence video series, you’ll learn about the top mental game reasons players have trouble taking their practice game to matches. Inability to perform up to ones potential in competition is the number one reason athletes contact me to help improve their mental game of tennis!
In the Tennis Confidence Video number 5, I discuss the fifth reason tennis players under perform in matches compared to their practice performance. You’ll learn why trying too be too perfect with your strokes in matches can interfere with your ability and prevent you from performing up to your ability in matches.
You learn why perfectionism in tennis cause you to tighten up and not hit the shots you are capable of in practice.
Watch my tennis confidence video below in HD:
- Watch Tennis Confidence Video 1 to find out why the academy mindset can hold you back in matches.
- Watch Tennis Confidence Video 2 to find out how fear of failure can get in the way of your performance.
- Watch Tennis Confidence Video 3 to find out how trying too hard can undermine your performance in matches.
- Watch Tennis Confidence Video 4 to find out how lack of self-confidence can hold back your game in matches.
Please leave your comments below about your (or your players’) experience with this mental game of tennis challenge…
Patrick, you are so right. I have gone through a process as a tennis player. I had more or less the same objectives during training and during match play. Today I work hard when I train. I have special focus on technique and try to make the best out of it. But on match play I try to “don’t think at all”. Just do it! – as Nike says. Thats the key and the first step doing better results in a game. Be relaxed and let the body do what it has been trained for.
This made me go from a group 4 to a group 1 in one year. Straight up. And with the growing confidence starting winning games, it all felt so easy. Why struggle on the court? Punishing your self for mistakes we all do. So first step is – Just do it. After a while you start think of tactics or what ever.
Thanks for solid tips that matters!
Markus, Stoockholm