Tennis Confidence

Tennis confidence articles for tennis players, coaches, and sports parents to improve mental game performance and consistency in matches.

Tennis Podcast: How to Win With a Lead

Tennis Psychology Podcast

Mental Game Tips to Keeping The Lead Welcome to session number fifteen 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

Don’t Compare Your Ranking to Opponent’s

Tennis Mental Game

Comparing Rankings Creates Expectations After working with several junior tennis players on their mental game, I’ve noticed that players limit their success when they focus on opponent rankings or tournament seeding. As you might already know, comparing your tennis skills to an opponent is a mental game no-no

Tennis Podcast: Confidence Rollercoaster

Tennis Psychology Podcast

Developing a Stable Level of Confidence Many tennis players can’t get off the confidence rollercoaster. Your confidence goes up and down based on immediate results. In this week’s tennis psychology session, you’ll learn: How to get off the confidence rollercoaster. Dr. Cohn teaches you the mental strategies to boost your tennis confidence. You’ll

Why Do Players Perform Better in Practice?

Video of The Week

Why Do Players Under Perform in Matches? Do you play like a star in practice or practice matches, but then under perform in competition due to a lack of confidence or poor focus? In my new tennis confidence video series, I’ll discuss: The top five mental game reasons

Tennis Podcast: Staying Confident After Errors

Tennis Psychology Podcast

Overcoming Mistakes in Tennis Many tennis players lose confidence after making mistakes.. In this week’s tennis psychology session, you’ll learn: How to bounce back quickly after mistakes. Dr. Cohn teaches you the mental keys to stay confident after mistakes.  You’ll have to accept mistakes and move onto the next point.

Nadal’s Mental Game: Believe in the Win

Tennis Psychology

Having Confidence That You Can Win OK, I keep thinking about the Nadal-Federer match up. As I said in a previous article, the finals at the Australian Open were filled with tennis psychology gems. I talked about how Nadal knew who he was before the match and it