Month: March 2010

Ljubicic: Breaking Slumps With Mental Toughness

Tennis Psychology

Improving Your Mental Game to Overcome Slumps Many tennis players experience slumps. Slumps occur when you perform poorly for a period of time. Slumps may be short-term, but sometimes they can happen for weeks or maybe even months at a time. A poor performance at a single tournament

How To Focus During Tennis Matches

Tennis Psychology

Improving Tennis Match Focus Do you get sidetracked by distractions that happen during matches, such as an argument in an adjacent court or a bug pestering you? I call these distractions external distractions. They can happen grab your attention and hurt your focus during a match. I recently

Help Tennis Juniors Cope With Mistakes

Video of The Week

How to Cope With Frustration And Mistakes Frustrated parents and coaches of young athletes contact us everyday about their kids’ inability to handle mistakes or cope with imperfection in sports. As a matter of fact, 43% of sports parents and coaches we surveyed agreed that: Kids struggle to let go and stay composed after mistakes.