Basic Tennis Psychology (Part 1)

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Tennis psychology is the same as understanding the make-up of your opponent’s mind and gauging the effect of your own game on his/her mental viewpoint and also understanding the mental effects resulting from the different external causes on your own mind.

However, it is true that you cannot be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding your own mental processes. Therefore, you must study the effect on yourself of the same thing happening under different circumstances. This is because people react differently in different moods and under different circumstances.

You have to understand the effect on your game of the resulting annoyance, joy, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction takes. Does it improve your prowess? If so, try for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it rob you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, but if that isn’t possible, try to ignore it.

Once you have accurately judged your own reaction to conditions, study your opponents in order to determine their characters. Like characters react similarly, and you may judge men of your own type by yourself. Other temperaments you must seek to compare with people whose reactions you know.

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

A steady, phlegmatic baseline player is rarely a quick thinker. If he were he would not stay on the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a fairly clear indicator of his/her sort of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who usually advocates the baseline game, does so because he hates to stir up his/her slow mind to work out a safe method of reaching the net.

Then there is the other sort of baseline player, who would prefer to remain on the back of the court while directing an attack intending to break 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 type of player mentioned above merely strikes the ball with little idea of what he is actually doing, while the latter always has a definite strategy and sticks to it.

If you are a novice tennis player or want to know more about the general psychology of tennis, just visit our website entitled Tennis Tips for Beginners. Free reprint available from: Basic Tennis Psychology (Part 1).

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