Mental toughness tips and articles for tennis players, coaches, and sports parents to improve performance.
Using Your Injury-Timeout To Your Benefit Injuries STINK! It can be devastating when injury strikes, especially when you are coming off a personal best season… or have busted your butt in training… or had a great start to a new season. Withdrawing from a tournament in which you
How Do You Improve Mental Toughness in Tennis? What does success in tennis require? Of course, success requires physical practice and technical skills but that is not enough. Tennis is more than being quick, having a strong aerobic capacity and having good strokes. Throughout the course of your
Mental Strategies to Battle For Each Point in Tennis Tennis is a sport totally tied to statistics… win-loss records, tournaments won, serve percentages, rankings, return percentage, total points won-lost, number of unforced errors and winners, etc. Results and stats matter to tennis players. Unfortunately, tennis players can get
How To Handle Momentum Shifts in Matches How do you handle momentum shifts during long tennis matches? Momentum shifts can be mentally draining for some tennis players… These players sense a change in momentum as the match is slipping away and find it difficult to get back into
Bouncing Back After Losing a Match A previous loss can complicate a tennis player’s focus. A tennis match is already full of potential distractions, but now you also need to overcome those thoughts of “the last time I played her…” When you are facing a player who beat
Mental Strategies to Manage Competitive Pressure “Why do I always melt down in tennis matches? I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” This is a common conversation in the office of a mental game coach. If we roll the tapes further, the conversation continues as such: “This always