Tennis Psychology Made Easy

The Aims of Tennis Psychology made Easy 1. To understand what you are tactically and mentally doing or need to do in a matchplay situation to win whilst understanding and combating what your opponent is doing or trying to do to win. 2. To get you to perform to your best ability whilst in the absence of physical, mental and emotional obstructions. 3. To truly ‘Th ink like a Pro’ Introduction Welcome to a revolutionary new tennis psychology system compiled into a simple easy to follow manual enabling anyone to achieve an ability to think like the professionals, control your emotions and stay performance orientated in your present game. As a tennis athlete you know for fact that more time is spent between points than hitting the actual ball. Th at equates to a lot of thinking time whilst playing and your job is to help yourself control that time. With this system help is at hand and I will give you everything you require to advance your tennis career onwards and upwards. I have laid this manual out in easily understood progressions to be mastered at your own pace and have designed the whole manual for anyone taking the sport of tennis more seriously in the area of tennis psychology. Parents can use it to enhance the mental abilities of their youngsters, coaches can use it to coach squads and groups of students of all abilities and levels and fi nally players can use the system themselves in order to enhance their personal on and off court thinking taking confi dence to new levels. Th e whole programme can be run as is or personalised to suit your own particular ways and needs, after all no one player plays, thinks or acts the same. I believe the higher the level you go the more important it becomes to enhance the fi ner percentages of your game. A one percent increase for instance in your mentality may help you break into the top 200 in the world or perhaps on a lower scale your fi rst team in the club you play in. Of course I want you to understand that if you need to improve something mentally in your game then you would do well to also improve your fi tness and tactical prowess in the same area via purposeful goal setting with all your coaches and trainers. Th is manual will introduce you to a psychology system via nine tasks, sixteen exercises and thirteen drills to enhance your on-court confi dence prior to, during and after matchplay. It takes 10,000-12,000 hours of training to become a top class athlete It may seem like a lot of hours but if you commit to this and remain committed with a meticulous programme no matter what then I am sure you will go onto to reach your end goal. You will then go onto realise there truly is no end goal! viii To become a well rounded player I want you to go out and lose big, lose those close matches, be near the fi nishing line and lose but at the same time I also want you to win big, come from behind to win and also win those close matches. I want whatever is going to go wrong in a match to go wrong, every environmental condition should be experienced. When you have gone through this you have gained a little more understanding in these fi elds. Win or lose I want you to never stop learning until you reach the top. Win or lose I want you to write down fi ve things you did well and just as important fi ve things you need to work on to progress forward. After all when you get there I want you to learn how to stay there. I hope you enjoy all the aspects of this course, like all learning it may be hard going at fi rst but before long the whole system will become integrated into your game without a second thought. Welcome to the beginning of your World Class Journey Andy Dowsett