Podcast 69: Control Your Emotions During Matches

Tennis Psychology Podcast for Players and Coaches

Welcome to session #69 of The Tennis Psychology Podcast. Dr. Patrick Cohn at Sports Psychology for Tennis, is a mental game of tennis expert and helps tournament players, tennis coaches and parents improve confidence, focus, and composure using sports psychology strategies. In this week’s tennis psychology session, Dr. Cohn helps a parents whose child struggles when he [...]

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Mental Game of College Tennis

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Dr. Patrick Cohn, author of Tennis Confidence: Mental Toughness for Tournament Players, and Stephanie Nickitas, Head Coach of the Women’s Tennis Team at the University of Central Florida, discuss the mental game challenges college tennis players face. Listen to the interview to learn more about improving your mental game of tennis. Stephanie was a standout player at Florida [...]

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Winning the Mental Game Battle

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Tennis is a mental game. You’ve probably at some point in your tennis career lost focus, composure, or had trouble regaining confidence and momentum during a match. If you’ve struggled with any of these mental challenges, you know how important the mind game of tennis is. The mental game of tennis is important for tennis [...]

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Tennis Podcast: Boost Focus with Imagery

Tennis Psychology Podcast for Players and Coaches

Welcome to session number twenty five of The Tennis Psychology Podcast. Dr. Patrick Cohn at Sports Psychology for Tennis, is a mental game of tennis expert and helps tournament players, tennis coaches and parents improve confidence, focus, and composure using sports psychology strategies. In this week’s tennis psychology session, you’ll learn how to use visualization [...]

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Tennis Podcast: Embracing Mental Training

Tennis Psychology Podcast for Players and Coaches

 Welcome to session number twenty four of The Tennis Psychology Podcast. Dr. Patrick Cohn at Sports Psychology for Tennis, is a mental game of tennis expert and helps tournament players, tennis coaches and parents improve confidence, focus, and composure using sports psychology strategies. In this week’s tennis psychology session, you’ll learn how to get kids interested [...]

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Tennis Podcast: Accepting Criticism

Tennis Psychology Podcast for Players and Coaches

 Welcome to session number twenty three of The Tennis Psychology Podcast. Dr. Patrick Cohn at Sports Psychology for Tennis, is a mental game of tennis expert and helps tournament players, tennis coaches and parents improve confidence, focus, and composure using sports psychology strategies. In this week’s tennis psychology session, you’ll learn how to help tennis [...]

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Mental Game of Tennis Tune Up or Overhaul?

Do you need a mental game tune up or complete overhaul? Today, I’ll explain how you know this. A powerful mental game is critical to your success on the court…. In fact, many of the top players in the world believe that a strong mental game allows their physical talent to prosper: “Confidence means a [...]

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The Real Culprit to Tension in Tennis

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Do your strokes feel controlled or tight in competition compared to practice? If so, I have an important tip for you today… I wanted to follow up with you on my last post by highlighting a recent question I received from a tennis player: Question: “I don’t understand how I can hit backhands in practice easily [...]

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Trust: Mental Toughness for Tennis Players

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How much practice time do you think about technique and how to hit good shots? In Tennis Confidence video 1, I discussed the “academy mindset” and how young tennis players get trapped into a training mentality, which can lead to choking in matches. This mindset is OK for some of your practice, but not all [...]

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7 Reasons Tennis Players Choke in Matches

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Do you have trouble performing as well in matches as you do in practice? Are you losing to players who you should beat? Or, do you get so frustrated after mistakes that it affects your game for several points? Many players have asked me help them solve these mental game issues. And I’ve started to [...]

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