Overview

In tennis, successful competitors will take a multi-disciplinary approach.

• Endurance/aerobic training
• Flexibility and stretching
• Diet and Nutrition
• Proper Hydration
• Strength Training
• Strategy emphasizing your strengths and your opponents weaknesses
• Improvement of stroke mechanics to maximize power, control and placement
  

Tennis involves a combination of physical skills, mental focus, and strategy that must be brought to bear. While a certain amount of anxiety can be a motivating and a positive force, there is no doubt that self-doubt, defeatism, folding under pressure, and choking are decidedly negative features that must be corrected to produce the best performance.

There is a large difference in psychology between beginners, intermediate, advanced and professional players. Visualization of positive outcomes is fine, providing you know the physical side of producing that outcome. Visualizing a result you do not know how to produce is setting yourself up for failure and anger. Which brings us to an essential point. While you do not want to cease improving and climbing the mountain of enhanced results, you should have expectations that are in conformity with your conditioning, skills, and playing experience.

As you dedicate yourself to taking a multi-disciplinary approach to your on-court improvement, keep raising the bar of your expectations. Keep stretch targets. Keep upgrading your competition in order to assess your progress.

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