Bigger Better Tennis - Paul Dale

To improve your game, you must begin to shift from reacting emotionally and use your brain more. The emotional realm is when you play points with doubt, a lack of confidence, fear, and even anger, and you are often overcome with insecurity and frustration. Sound familiar? Even at the top level, tennis players deal with many negative emotions that conspire to wreck their game. It's just that the top players can override the negative emotions better, or their more brilliant intellect takes over art practised in crucial times and saves the day by helping them complete the win. But at the lower level, players are overwhelmed by all their negative emotions, which subotage their game. It's not surprising then that tennis, and many other sporting pursuits, can be very frustrating for most and gut-wrenching for others. The continual emotional conflict between what you want to do and what you actually do in reality can result in us having a mental meltdown during the match. When our int