This is a guest post from Pete at Winners Mentality Tennis. Check out his website to learn more about improving your mental game to win more matches. For the first time since Marat Safin defeated Lleyton Hewitt in the 2005 Australian Open, two players other than Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, or Novak Djokovic will be
This is a guest post from Pete at Winners Mentality Tennis. Check out his website to learn more about improving your mental game to win more matches. Have you ever found yourself losing to a player that you should be beating easily? Does this happen more often that you'd care to admit? Your mindset
Tennis: Winning the Mental Match, by Allen Fox, Ph.D. (Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, 2010) 159 Pages, 14 Chapters, with Foreword by Justin Gimelstob "Tennis is more difficult mentally than most other sports. Because of its one on one personal nature, it feels more important than it is. Competitive matches can be highly stressful, and losing
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, Geoff Colvin, (New York, NY: Portfolio, 2008), 228 Pages, 11 Chapters with Acknowledgments, Sources and Index. "Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from." -Geoff Colvin Page 188, Chapter 11 (Where does great performance come from?) (Explaining that Japanese
In 2001, there was little indication that the era of serve and volley tennis was living on borrowed time in its spiritual heartland of Wimbledon. Players at every stage of their career, and of every stature, were following their serves into the net with great effect. The mighty Sampras and the ever-hopeful Henman, the giant veteran Ivanisevic and the rising star Federer, all used the same basic game plan. Whether following booming 130mph serves, or more modest deliveries, there could be little doubt which style was ascendant on the skiddy, low-bouncing grass, with Andre Agassi the only baseliner in the semi-finals.
The Three Golden Rules of Tennis Are there any universal rules of tennis that will help lift all players to higher levels of success and growth? Yes. Here are 3 interesting and pivotal concepts borrowed from some top coaches and writers. 1. Never Do Anything on Court that Does Not Help You Win -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
Our best theoretical physicists and mathematicians today have deduced with their experiments and equations that our Universe is far richer and more complex than ever imagined. For example, physics pioneers such as Michio Kaku of City University of New York and Brian Greene of Columbia University, argue that our physical reality may actually consist of
The great Greek mathematician Euclid (circa 300BC in Alexandria) is considered the "Father of Geometry". He may have found it interesting that the modern game of tennis is, arguably, mostly a problem of geometry. The art of tennis is essentially the problem of hitting a tennis ball with as much spin and power necessary to
*This Blog Article was inspired by the ideas in the book Quantum Golf and the other sources listed at the end of this article. I gratefully acknowledge these sources and their authors, and highly recommend them to the reader. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup,
In tennis, playing for God and Country means The Davis Cup, which carries a very special history of pride and passion. I had the unique opportunity to watch live the Davis Cup tie (match series) between USA and Colombia while traveling through Colombia in September 2010. The tie was a Play-off for entry into the
