Tennis psychology articles for tennis players, coaches, and sports parents to improve mental game performance and consistency.
Overcoming External Challenges Tennis is a sport of many challenges: In order to play optimally in tennis matches, you must face challenges head on. Yet, many tennis players say: “I tend to back down during hard practices, close matches, important tournaments, and against skilled opponents. How can I
Improving Your Tennis Mindset Remember when you first started playing competitive tennis? In the beginning you weren’t very skilled and there were plenty of other players better than you. But that didn’t bother you… every match you played, you fought tooth and nail to win each point. The
Does Your Player Become Nervous When In The Lead? In this week’s tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers: A question from a tennis instructor whose player has difficulty when up in a match. When he is up 3-Love or 4-Love, he becomes
Mental Toughness to Fight Fatigue Have you ever been so tired during the end of a tennis match that your game suffered? Fatigue happens in competitive tennis due to the long duration of some matches. Fatigue affects players of all levels, including WTA, ATP or USTA players. Fatigue
Playing Difficult Tennis Opponents In this week’s tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers: A question from a tennis parent whose player has difficulty playing against serious or “unfair” competitors. Dr. Cohn gives mental game tips on how to improve confidence in tennis.
Mental Toughness to Improve Your First Serve Your first serve is critical and one of your most important weapons in your tennis game. Your first serve sets the tone for the point… Hitting your first serve with pace, spin and placement gets you into your rhythm and ahead