Tennis Psychology for Junior to Tour Pro Players
Improve Your Mental Game of Tennis with Sports Psychology Expert Dr. Patrick Cohn
Mental toughness is an asset to your tennis game. Have you ever lost your composure after making a silly mistake? Have you doubted yourself when you’re losing in a match? Most tennis players at some point or another have struggled with mental game challenges such as focus, composure or confidence during matches. Although many tennis [...]
I’m often contacted by tennis parents and players about lack of concentration or focus during matches. I try to explain that concentration can be affected by various mental game or tennis issues. Yes, sometimes, you might lose your concentration during the match, but it’s more likely that you lost focus because you got frustrated or tightened [...]
Mental training for tennis might not be for every player or coach. If you don’t take lessons to improve technique or if you don’t care about your fitness for tennis, then you probably won’t care to improve your mental game for tennis either. Mental training to improve mental toughness is for more dedicated, tournament players [...]
Perfectionist tennis kids can often make tennis too complex. They can be over-analytical about their own performance, think too much, and worry too much about fixing mistakes. All of these mindsets cause tennis players to lose confidence and under-perform in matches even though they may look like stars in practice. Tim Gallwey was a coach [...]
The inner game of tennis is a wonderful lesson in sports psychology for tennis players. Timothy Gallwey wrote the “Inner Game of Tennis” many years ago and it was a groundbreaking book at the time in tennis instruction and sports psychology. You should read the inner game of tennis if you have not. Gallwey says that tennis players [...]
