YOUR EMOTIONS ARE ADVISORS: NOT MASTERS: Your Hidden Superpower in Tennis
YOUR EMOTIONS ARE ADVISORS, NOT MASTERS: Your Hidden Superpower in Tennis By Paul Dale \ The 3AM Method Your Emotions Are Advisors, Not Masters: The Hidden Superpower Inside Every Tennis Match Every player has emotions on the court. The question is whether those emotions are working for you - or against you. Tehran, 1990. A Match I Have Never Forgotten. I have been involved in numerous tennis matches over the past fifty years. Most blur together eventually. But some stay with you in perfect detail --- not because of the score, but because of what you learned. This is one of those matches. I was captaining Thailand in the Davis Cup in Tehran. We were playing Iran on home soil, and the opening singles was between their player --- a big, powerful man built like a bull --- and our player, Danai Udomchoke, who was so slightly built that I imagine the Iranian crowd saw him walk onto court and quietly assumed the match was already decided. Danai Udomchoke represented Thailan...