How to React After a Bad Tennis Match What is your reaction in the hours and days following a disastrous match? Your responses to emotional meltdowns on the court, an uncharacteristic number of unforced errors in a match, losses to lower-ranked opponents and blown leads affect your mindset
Learning To Play Your Game and Not Your Opponents When you step on the court and look across the net and see the look of confidence on your opponent does that frighten you? In this week’s tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers
How to Focus on Your Strengths Over 100 career wins… Ranked No. 1… 82% winning percentage… Doubles champion!!! Imagine playing against this opponent and you’re staring down the opposite side of the court focusing on that player with outstanding statistics, high winning percentage, top-ranking, award-winning, highly-regarding player… What
How to Beat Idols in Tennis How do you win a “best of 3” match in tennis? That seems like a relatively easy answer… win two sets. While, ultimately, that is true, there is much more to it. There is a huge problem with the “I-have-to-win-two-sets” mindset. This
Learn to be Mentally Tough to Beat Top Seeds Have you ever faced an opponent with an impressive win-loss record or a player that was decorated with awards and accolades or a player who topped the rankings for an extensive period of time? What was your mindset playing
How to Focus to Win not Focus on Winning Why do you play competitive tennis? The answer is most likely, “To Win.” But there is a huge difference between focusing on winning and being focused to win. Focusing on winning during a match is counter-productive. When you focus