BECOME A MENTAL GIANT IN MATCHES
The number one question I get asked whenever a player needs help with something is how to improve the mental side of their game. Many of us are excellent in practice, but transferring those great strokes into real-life matches can be difficult. So, here are my suggestions on improving your mentality in matches and becoming a mental giant during competition. The "Ego" and the "Task" motivated player As a coach, I used to love the hard worker. I felt that I had the suitable material to mold a future champion if given a young player who worked hard. But often, these hard-working players, I call them Task motivated players, never fulfilled the potential I thought they had. The good results I expected just didn't materialise. Task-motivated players worked harder and longer than anybody else but often lack the ability to clinch close matches and will sometimes lose to players who don't work as hard or train as well as them. So what's going on? I began to cal...