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General Tennis Psychology
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understanding the workings
of your opponent's mind, and Does it deprive you of
gauging the effect of your own concentration? If so, either
game on his mental viewpoint, and remove the cause, or if that is
understanding the mental effects not possible strive to ignore it.
resulting from the various
external causes on your own mind. Once you have judged accurately
You cannot be a successful your own reaction to conditions,
psychologist of others without study your opponents, to decide
first understanding your own their temperaments. Like
mental processes, you must study temperaments react similarly, and
the effect on yourself of the you may judge men of your own
same happening under different type by yourself. Opposite
circumstances. You react temperaments you must seek to
differently in different moods compare with people whose
and under different conditions. reactions you know.
You must realize the effect on
your game of the resulting A person who can control his own
irritation, pleasure, confusion, mental processes stands an
or whatever form your reaction excellent chance of reading those
takes. Does it increase your of another, for the human mind
efficiency? If so, strive for it, works along definite lines of
but never give it to your thought, and can be studied. One
opponent href="http://www.outdoors5.com" processes after carefully
title="http://www.outdoors5.com" studying them.
target="_blank">color="#001000" A steady phlegmatic baseline
player is seldom a keen thinker. net-rushing player is a creature
If he was he would not adhere to of impulse. There is no real
the baseline. system to his attack, no
understanding of your game. He
The physical appearance of a man will make brilliant coups on the
is usually a pretty clear index spur of the moment, largely by
to his type of mind. The stolid, instinct; but there is no, mental
easy-going man, who usually power of consistent thinking. It
advocates the baseline game, does is an interesting, fascinating
so because he hates to stir up type.
his torpid mind to think out a
safe method of reaching the net. The dangerous man is the player
There is the other type of who mixes his style from back to
baseline player, who prefers to fore court at the direction of an
remain on the back of the court ever-alert mind. This is the man
while directing an attack to study and learn from. He is a
intended to break up your game. player with a definite purpose. A
He is a very dangerous player, player who has an answer to every
and a deep, keen thinking query you propound him in your
antagonist. He achieves his game. He is the most subtle
results by mixing up his length antagonist in the world. He is of
and direction, and worrying you the school of Brookes. Second
with the variety of his game. He only to him is the man of dogged
is a good psychologist. The first determination that sets his mind
type of player mentioned merely on one plan and adheres to it,
hits the ball with little idea of bitterly, fiercely fighting to
what he is doing, while the the end, with never a thought of
latter always has a definite plan change. He is the man whose
and adheres to it. The psychology is easy to understand,
hard-hitting, erratic, but whose mental viewpoint is
hard to upset, for he never value than a, return that is
allows himself to think of killed by your opponent.
anything except the business at
hand. This man is your Johnston Let me explain. A player drives
or your Wilding. I respect the you far out of court with an
mental capacity of Brookes more, angle-shot. You run hard to it,
but I admire the tenacity of and reaching, drive it hard and
purpose of Johnston. fast down the side-line, missing
it by an inch. Your opponent is
Pick out your type from your own surprised and shaken, realizing
mental processes, and then work that your shot might as well have
out your game along the lines gone in as out. He will expect
best suited to you. you to try it again, and will not
take the risk next time. He will
When two men are, in the same try to play the ball, and may
class, as regards stroke fall into error. You have thus
equipment, the determining factor taken some of your opponent's
in any given match is the mental confidence, and increased his
viewpoint. Luck, so-called, is chance of error, all by a miss.
often grasping the psychological
value of a break in the game, and If you had merely popped back
turning it to your own account. that return, and it had been
killed, your opponent would have
We hear a great deal about the felt increasingly confident of
"shots we have made." Few realize your inability to get the ball
the importance of the "shots we out of his reach, while you would
have missed." The science of merely have been winded without
missing shots is as important as result.
that of making them, and at times
a miss by an inch is of more Let us suppose you made the shot
down the sideline. It was a viewpoint becomes poor. The sole
seemingly impossible get. First object of the first man is to
it amounts to TWO points in that hold his lead, thus holding his
it took one away from your confidence. If the second player
opponent that should have been pulls even or draws ahead, the
his and gave you one you ought inevitable reaction occurs with
never to have had. It also even a greater contrast in
worries your opponent, as he psychology. There is the natural
feels he has thrown away a big confidence of the leader now with
chance. the second man as well as that
great stimulus of having turned
The psychology of a tennis match seeming defeat into probable
is very interesting, but easily victory. The reverse in the case
understandable. Both men start of the first player is apt to
with equal chances. Once one man hopelessly destroy his game, and
establishes a real lead, his collapse follows.
confidence goes up, while his
opponent worries, and his mental
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