Tennis Psychology (Part 1)
Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings of your opponent's mind, and assessing 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 conditions.
You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, joy, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it increase your efficiency? If so, strive for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, or if that is not possible, try to ignore it.
Once you have accurately judged your own reaction to circumstances, study your opponents in order to decide their temperaments. Like characters react similarly, and you may judge men of your own type by yourself. Different temperaments you must seek to compare with people whose reactions you know.
A person who can control his/her own mental processes runs an great chance of reading those of another for the mind works along definite lines of thought and can be examined. One can only control one's own mental processes after carefully studying them.
The steady, unemotional baseline player is rarely a quick thinker. If he were, 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 impassive, easy-going player, who usually displays the baseline game, does so because he hates to stir up his/her torpid mind to think out a safe method of getting to the net.
Then there is the other kind 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 very 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 variance of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.
The first type of player mentioned above just hits the ball with little thought about what he is actually doing, while the latter always has a definite strategy and adheres to it.
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 conditions.
You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, joy, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it increase your efficiency? If so, strive for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, or if that is not possible, try to ignore it.
Once you have accurately judged your own reaction to circumstances, study your opponents in order to decide their temperaments. Like characters react similarly, and you may judge men of your own type by yourself. Different temperaments you must seek to compare with people whose reactions you know.
A person who can control his/her own mental processes runs an great chance of reading those of another for the mind works along definite lines of thought and can be examined. One can only control one's own mental processes after carefully studying them.
The steady, unemotional baseline player is rarely a quick thinker. If he were, 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 impassive, easy-going player, who usually displays the baseline game, does so because he hates to stir up his/her torpid mind to think out a safe method of getting to the net.
Then there is the other kind 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 very 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 variance of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.
The first type of player mentioned above just hits the ball with little thought about what he is actually doing, while the latter always has a definite strategy and adheres to it.
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