Basic Tennis Psychology (Part 1)

By Gail Jones_ | December 29, 2009

Tennis psychology is the same as 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 psychological effects resulting from the various 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 happening under various circumstances. This is because you react differently in different moods and under different conditions.

You have to understand the effect on your game of the resulting annoyance, pleasure, confusion, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it increase your prowess? If so, go for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it rob you of concentration? If so, either remove the cause, but if that isn’t possible, strive to ignore it.

After you have properly assessed your own reaction to conditions, observe your opponents to determine their characters. Similar temperaments react in a like manner, and you can judge people of your own type by yourself. Opposite characters you must seek to liken with those people, whose reactions you are already familiar with.

A person who can control his/her own psychology stands an excellent chance of determining those of another for the minds works along certain lines of thought and can be studied. One can only control one’s own mental processes after examining them very carefully .

A steady, phlegmatic baseline player is rarely a keen thinker. If he was he would not adhere to the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a pretty clear indication of his/her kind of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who usually advocates the baseline game, does so because he hates to stir up his/her torpid mind to work out a safe method of getting to 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 intended to disrupt up your game. He is a very 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 variety of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.

The first sort of tennis player mentioned above merely hits the ball without much idea of what he is actually up to, while the latter always has a definite plan and sticks to it.

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