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2010
19
Apr

Tennis Psychology (Part 1)

Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings of your opponent’s mind, and gauging the effect of your own game on his/her head and also understanding the psychological effects resulting from the different external causes on your own mind.

However, it is also true that you no one can be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding his own mental processes. Therefore, you must study the effect on yourself of the same thing occurring under various circumstances. This is because people react differently in different moods and under different conditions.

You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting annoyance, pleasure, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it improve your prowess? If so, go for it, but never give it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, or if that is not possible, strive to ignore it.

After you have properly measured your own reaction to conditions, observe your opponents to decide their temperaments. Like temperaments react in a like way, and you can judge people of your own kind by yourself. Different temperaments you must seek to liken with those people, whose reactions you are already familiar with.

Someone who can regulate his/her own psychology runs an excellent chance of determining those of another for the minds works along certain lines of thought and can be studied. One may only regulate one’s own thought processes after examining them meticulously.

A regular, unemotional baseline player is seldom a keen thinker. If he was, he would not stay on the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is usually a fairly clear indication of his/her sort of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who normally advocates the baseline game, does it because he does not want to activate up his/her torpid mind to work out a reliably safe method of reaching the net.

Then there is the other type of baseline player, who would prefer to remain on the back of the court while directing an attack intending to disrupt up your game. He is a much more dangerous player, and a deep, keen thinking antagonist. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variance of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.

The first kind of tennis player mentioned above just strikes the ball without much thought about what he is actually up to, while the latter always has a definite plan and adheres to it.

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