Without a strong foundation of mental toughness, you're in for some serious heartbreaks and painful experiences. But the good thing is, there are some great ways to help develop your mental toughness, and most of it comes from simply experiencing the game. It takes time to build up the calm that you'll need in order to play smart tennis, without allowing frustrations and stresses take over your game. Here are a couple mental tennis tips that will help you develop a strong mental toughness foundation for tennis.
Losing
No one enters a game of tennis expecting to lose. However, each time you lose, your mental toughness develops a bit more. This is especially true if you experience a heartbreaking loss, such as being tied and then losing the tie breaker. Other examples might include winning the opening set or having a match point and then losing the match, or even losing to a very lesser ranked player when you've already beaten an amazing one just before. Any of these things would cause a very painful loss, because you're pretty sure that you're going to win. It's like having the tournament in your hand and then dropping it. These things are necessary to build up a mental toughness for tennis.
Another thing that will help you develop a strong mental toughness foundation would be getting too frustrated by elements outside of the game and losing the match as a result. A lot of times, when you're so psyched up for a game and you're really excited, there are things which might frustrate you to the point of not being able to play the game at your best. These can be simple things like noise or the wind. Things like this can make you lose your concentration easily. There can also be serious things like bad calls or nervousness that frustrate you to the point of losing your concentration and not playing at your best.
The thing that separates the great players from the mediocre is learning to overcome these issues. True champions will keep a positive mindset and think of these things as simple learning experiences and they will truly learn from these mistakes and losses. Staying positive and staying focused when you're in theses situations is the key to becoming a better player and developing a great mental toughness.
No matter how great of a tennis player you are, you will eventually experience these things, and if you become negative and believe that you will never win because of one thing or another, you will probably not succeed with tennis.
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