Mental game of tennis tips and articles for tennis players, coaches, and sports parents to improve performance.
Maintaining Confidence After Negative Feedback Tennis confidence is important for any tennis player to play their best. Many players rely on others around them, such as teammates, coaches and parents to boost their confidence. Some tennis players will lose confidence after hearing negative comments about their game from teammates or
Explaining Tennis Psychology When talking about sports psychology for tennis players, I am referring to your so-called mental game or inner game of tennis. What is the mental game of inner game of tennis? Simply, how you think and react emotionally on the tennis court. I’m sure you
What’s Your Tennis Mindset? I know of two types of tennis mindsets in tournament players when it comes to their approach to playing points. A tennis mindset for success is the player who focuses on winning points and executing good shots. The other type of player who has an avoidance
Emotional Control in Tennis I find that younger players with less tournament experience struggle with their emotional control more so that veteran players on Tour. With maturity and greater mental toughness comes increased emotional and mental control on the court. Even Roger Federer early in his career would
Learning From Mental Errors I don’t care how technically sound you are with your strokes, you can’t execute every shot perfectly. Even the pros miss shots. You will miss a few shots or not hit them dead center on the face of the racquet. You can view missed
Mental Training and Confidence I’ve written a lot about the importance of confidence in tennis. I call confidence a cure-all for the mental game because it’s so powerful to other parts of your game. For example, when you have high confidence going into a match, you are