How to Keep Your Lead in a Match Do you ever find yourself cruising along in a match and the second set or third set you're in command and controlling your opponent and then all of the sudden, BOOM! Something happens and you lose the match? In this week's tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question … [Read more...]
What’s The Challenge With Perfectionism?
How to Manage Your Expectations on The Tennis Court When you lose your cool on the tennis court, do you give up, thank or start pushing the ball? In this week's tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from Sarah who needs help managing her expectations. Here's what Sarah had to say about her … [Read more...]
How to Take Your Tennis Game to The Next Level
Improving Your Mindset When Playing Higher Ranked Players Do you have trouble taking your game to the next level and maybe beating that person that is 1 level ahead of you or higher ranked than you? In this week's tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from Riley about how do you take your game … [Read more...]
Overcoming Double Faults in Tennis
Helping Young Tennis Players Stay Composed Do you have a young tennis player that tends to implode after a couple of double faults on the tennis court? In this week's tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a questions from a tennis parent. Ramona wrote in and said: "My son is 11 years old. He's been … [Read more...]
How to Improve Consistency in Tennis Matches
Strategies for Developing Consistency in Tennis "I’m playing great tennis one minute then the next minute I can’t seem to do anything right. I just can’t seem to be consistent in my game. Is there anything I can do to improve my consistency on the court?" This is a common question we receive from tennis players. All tennis players search for … [Read more...]
How Osaka Thinks After Her Big Win
How to Perform Well After Winning a Tournament Winning a big match or tournament can provide a huge confidence boost for some tennis players, but there is a large percentage of tennis players that experience a greater sense of pressure after a big win. Big wins can translate into bigger expectations, which carry greater pressure... Pressure to … [Read more...]
Conversations Can Change Your Mindset on the Court
How to Improve Your Self-Talk in Tennis I'm certain you've gotten down on yourself at some point during a match.... You might have trouble staying positive when you find yourself down in a match or after making a few stupid shots at critical times in a match... You begin to feel frustrated... You put yourself down and tell yourself how … [Read more...]
Dealing With Fatigue in Tough Tennis Matches
Strategies to Push Through Fatigue in Matches Drained... Exhausted... Beat... Worn out... Gassed... Extremely tired... Do any of these words describe a match you recently played? How did you handle playing with fatigue? Were you able to dig deep and find a way to keep competing for every point or did you succumb to the tired feelings and … [Read more...]
Klaasen’s Mind Shift at Wimbledon
Improving Your Mental Game to Boost Confidence How much of sports is a mental game? 50%, 60%, or even 90%? "They say that sports are 90% mental and 10% physical. But that’s not true because no one is out there playing chess. Sports are physical, 90% physical and 10% mental. That last 10% though, the mental part is what can take you to your … [Read more...]
Surprise! Federer Doesn’t Always Have His A Game
How to Play Functional Tennis And Win Ugly Do you feel like you always have to play with your A-game? Do you want to constantly feel “good” when you play? After a loss, are you able to move on and accept that today just “was not the day?” Tennis star, Roger Federer recently lost to Kevin Anderson in Wimbledon, with scores of 2-6, 6-7, 7-5, … [Read more...]
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