Tennis psychology articles for tennis players, coaches, and sports parents to improve mental game performance and consistency.
Help Young Athletes Kick Perfectionism We’ve identified perfectionism and fear of failure as the number one challenge for sports parents and their young athletes. We’ve created a new program to help sports parents and their young athletes kick perfectionism. Our new program is called: “Sports Parents’ Top Dilemma: Helping Young
Mental Training in Tennis Mental training for tennis might not be for every player or coach. If you don’t take lessons to improve technique or if you don’t care about your fitness for tennis, then you probably won’t care to improve your mental game for tennis either. Mental
Tournament Self-Confidence in Tennis What does it truly mean to believe in yourself? When you believe in yourself, you have full confidence in your physical skills and ability to execute shots in tennis. My definition of self-confidence for tennis is how strongly you believe in your ability to
Developing Stable Confidence in Tennis Confidence can be fragile for many tennis players, which makes it difficult to have a strong mental game of tennis. What is fragile self-confidence in tennis? It means your confidence is prone to go up and down rapidly one point to the next
Signs of Perfectionism in Tennis Perfectionist tennis kids can often make tennis too complex. They can be over-analytical about their own performance, think too much, and worry too much about fixing mistakes. All of these mindsets cause tennis players to lose confidence and under-perform in matches even though
Staying Composed in Tennis Do you try to hit perfect shots and can’t handle imperfection during play? If you try to play a perfect game, you most likely sabotage your mental game with high expectations for your performance. Your high expectations can backfire and have a negative effect on