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Basic Tennis Psychology (Part 1)

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 head and also understanding the psychological effects resulting from the different external causes on your own head.

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 happening under different circumstances. This is because people react differently in different moods and under different conditions.

You must realize the effect on your game of the ensuing annoyance, joy, confusion, or whatever other form your reaction takes. Does it increase your prowess? If so, strive for it, but never give it to your opponent. Does it rob you of concentration? If so, either remove the cause, or if that is not possible, try to ignore it.

Once you have correctly assessed your own reaction to circumstances, observe your opponents in order to decide their characters. Similar characters react similarly, and you can judge men of your own type by yourself. Different temperaments you must try to liken with those whose reactions you already know.

Someone who can control his/her own psychology has an excellent chance of determining those of someone else for the minds works along definite lines of thought and can be examined. One may only regulate one’s own mental processes after examining them meticulously.

The regular, unemotional baseline player is seldom a quick thinker. If he was, he would not adhere to the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a pretty clear indicator of his/her sort of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who normally displays the baseline strategy, does it because he does not want to stir up his/her slow mind to think out a reliably safe method of getting to the net.

Then there is the other kind of baseline player, who would rather 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 opponent. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variety of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.

The first sort of tennis player mentioned above simply strikes the ball without much idea of what he is actually up to, while the latter always has a solid, thought-out plan and sticks to it.

If you are into the psychology of tennis, you ought to visit our website entitled Tennis Tips for Beginners

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