STAYING POSITIVE IN MATCHES
ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTIONS IN TENNIS... Being successful in competitive tennis depends largely on how well, you can manage problems and control your emotions. If you have trouble with anger and frustration during matches and believe those emotions during the match are due to playing poorly, then you're mistaken. This notion suggests that errors trigger negative emotions. You make mistakes and then your negative emotions arrive as a consequence. But after many years of working with competitive players I now believe that a player's predisposition towards negativity and frustration is actually waiting to be triggered by events during the match. Your current negative mindset amplifies your reaction to mistakes; the emotion doesn't start from the errors themselves. This inherent negativity inside you amplifies your reactions to errors during a match. The more negativity you carry around with you, the bigger your reaction will be when things start to go wron