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Mental Tennis Tips Can Help You Win Your Tennis Matches

Most tennis players are recreational players but the more ambitious ones use mental tennis tips to go further in the tennis world.

Tennis is a wonderful sport and an average player can play it and just plain enjoy it minus the competition.

In tennis, skill, size, strength, agility, speed all give you an edge over your opponent but if you are mentally weak, you lose out over a perceived weaker player who employs mental tennis tips to his advantage. Jimmy Connors was not the biggest player nor possessing of the biggest forehand or service game. But he was so mentally superior, enabling him to win a lot of titles.

Whether on an amateur tennis court, or a professional tennis venue, or a weekend friendly game of tennis, employing mental tennis tips win a lot of games.

The mental tennis tips that you can find in this website can help you become an all-around tennis player. You can possess the ideal attributes for a player, even talent but if you break down in important matches and close calls, you will not win titles.

One can play tennis and lose game after game and still derive enjoyment out of it but if you consistently lose despite your tennis skills, something is wrong. In tennis as in all sports, it's a mental game.

Although I believe that competition is overemphasized in America, the drive to be the best is a basic human instinct that propels the very best of our tennis idols.

Not only are they disciplined, not only are they extremely talented, they are most of all in possession of mental tennis tips burned into their minds from an early age by their tennis coaches and which stayed with them throughout their professional careers.

Those outstanding athletes reached the acme of professional tennis perfection not by shortcuts but by employing a daily regimen of mental preparation. It prepared them for close tennis matches, it enhanced their tennis strokes, it gave them an edge over superior opponents merely by the power of the mind.

Psychological tips are indispensable in their rise to fame. Tennis mental tips are therefore crucial in a player's development in this game.

Psychological Tennis Tips #1 - being consciously relaxed, playing for fun but stress-free, being child-like to enjoy games but focused enough to win most of your tennis matches.

Psychological Tennis Tips #2 - what differentiates champions from also-runs and how to be a consistent winner. And these are free tennis tips, too!

Psychological Tennis Tips #3 - read about proven techniques to psyche yourself into a winning mental mode thru mental training.

Psychological Tennis Tips #4 - how rituals and pre-event routines can propel you out of ordinary consciousness into the hyper-state of intense focus that is required to reach the flow state--the peak performance state.

Psychological Tennis Tips #5 - enter the zone, the winning zone.

Psychological Tennis Tips #6 - engage in solution-focused thinking, not problem-focused thinking and win more matches. Test your ability to compete.

If you are looking for mental tennis tips that prepare tennis players for the pressures of competitive match play, look no further than Pressure Tennis. This instructional book shows you how to raise the level of intensity of your practices, increasing their effectiveness and mentally toughening up your players if you're a coach.

Pressure Tennis Book<br> (Copyright 2000, 216 pages)

Pressure Tennis Book






If you are looking for a training system that prepares tennis players for the pressures of competitive match play, look no further than Pressure Tennis. This instructional book, full of mental tennis tips, shows you how to raise the level of intensity of your practices, increasing their effectiveness and mentally toughening up your players. Tennis coach Paul Wardlaw has created and refined his extraordinary training program through his 14 successful seasons at the college level. Through his system, you will learn how to design and implement effective practice sessions using pressure drills that simulate match-like conditions. Pressure Tennis will also demonstrate how you can help your players develop: high-percentage tactics; aggressive court position; varied, intelligent shot selection; and better court coverage and anticipation of the opponent's shot. Within the first week or two of use, the system improves concentration, motivation, confidence, and conditioning. More important, players develop a resilience to match-play pressure and welcome the challenge of even the toughest opponent. To help evaluate progress, Wardlaw has included a novel Performance Index that provides coaches with a more objective measure of each player's execution, effort, and ranking on the team. Whether you're a player or a coach, you'll want Pressure Tennis for the blueprint it provides for enhancing mental toughness through a predominance of mental tennis tips in its pages. About the Author Paul Wardlaw has worked his way up to the top of the tennis coaching ranks. In the early 1990s, he turned Division III Kenyon College into a national powerhouse, leading them to three NCAA National Team Championships. In recognition of his outstanding coaching skills, Wardlaw received the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association's National Coach of the Year Award. Wardlaw then turned his attention to the University of Iowa women's tennis program. In only two short years as head coach, he increased the team's standing to its highest ranking ever and led them to their first NCAA tournament bid and a trip to the Sweet 16. Wardlaw has written The Wardlaw Directionals, which appeared in the book Coaching Tennis and will be featured in the upcoming Human Kinetics video High-Percentage Tennis. He resides in Iowa City with his wife and two daughters. Table of Contents Chapter 1. Winning Principles of Tennis Performance Chapter 2. Putting Pressure Into Practices Chapter 3. High-Percentage Shot making Chapter 4. Court Position and Shot Selection Chapter 5. Teaching Tactics Ch


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