Use Mental Toughness to Fight Through Challenges On a scale from 1-10, how would you rate your mental toughness? How often do you work on mental toughness? Regularly, occasionally, rarely, or never? A large component of your performance is grounded in mental toughness. Mental toughness is your …
What to do When Frustrated During Matches
Training Your Mind to Respond to Adversity What do you do when you are having a bad practice and become frustrated? When you are struggling in practice, do you just go through the motions or do you keep working hard? Most tennis players feel they have the luxury of packing it in, after all, …
Continue Reading about What to do When Frustrated During Matches →
How to Focus Like Jen Brady
Raise Your Level of Game When it Matters Most Do you play your best in tough matches or do you tend to fall apart in critical moments? All tennis players wish they had the ability to improve their game when it matters most. That extra something or secret sauce of playing well in tough matches …
How to Balance the Ambition to Win with Playing Well in the Match
Focus on the Process, Not the Outcome Are you or your players super competitive? That's a good thing, right? Every player wants to win... In sports psychology, we find that tennis players sometimes want to win so badly that they can't perform their best on the court. Highly competitive tennis …
Continue Reading about How to Balance the Ambition to Win with Playing Well in the Match →
How Nadal Uses Preparation to Develop His Mental Strength
Give Yourself a Mental Edge Over Your Opponents Do you ever wonder why some tennis players tend to win close matches while other tennis players consistently blow a lead? Are you looking to gain a competitive advantage so you can pull off victories in the final set of tough matches? Many …
Continue Reading about How Nadal Uses Preparation to Develop His Mental Strength →
Start the Season with a Positive Attitude
How to Avoid Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Do you become frustrated when you lose the first few matches of the season? Do early season losses feel like a sign that you will have a bad season? No tennis player wants to start off the season on a bad note, but the first few matches of the season …
Continue Reading about Start the Season with a Positive Attitude →