Overcoming Tennis Slumps Are you in the middle of a slump? Does it feel like you will never break the string of lost matches? Every tennis player has periods where their performance slumps. It’s a normal part of the game. But your attitude towards your slump will determine
Helping Young Athletes Keep Match Focus In “Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions about focus in competition. Visit Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your question for Dr. Cohn to answer in his mental game videocast or podcast. Here’s
How to Become More Confident in Matches In this week’s tennis psychology podcast, mental game of tennis expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn interviews David Sammel, author of “Locker Room Power.” Dr. Cohn and Sammel talk about: Locker room power and how to be more confident in matches. Listen to this
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
Embracing Constructive Criticism Constructive feedback is essential to rise through the ranks and improve your tennis game. Feedback from your coach provides useful information, not only about your performance in a match, but how to perform better in future tennis matches. Feedback allows you to understand: Basically, feedback
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