your hot then your cold. where's your confidence/mindset?
Tennis is a funny game. I lost in 2 finals at tahoe, and first round in sparetime. I was playing well but not favored to win any of those matches. Tappy and I took a "bad" loss in postseason league play. Shinny and I won the first set but lost in 2 tiebreaks to kenzo and his good partner.
So basically I was 1-5 in 6 matches but playing fine. Then it got in my head and my serve had the yip's for almost 2 full weeks! (My game went to hell) this is what I need advice in getting over quickly next time.
Saturday morning I took an 0 and 0 loss on clay and that must have snapped me out of it. I played sick the rest of the weekend in sonoma, sick again Tuesday night, and yesterday morning I had the best outing in recent memory against dan becker (closest thing I have to a coach.)
I even told dan I am playing well again before we started... confidence and how it relates to the natural up's and downs of tennis a strange thing.
Hopefully 11hr's of teaching doesn't cool off my game before Sunday!
So basically I was 1-5 in 6 matches but playing fine. Then it got in my head and my serve had the yip's for almost 2 full weeks! (My game went to hell) this is what I need advice in getting over quickly next time.
Saturday morning I took an 0 and 0 loss on clay and that must have snapped me out of it. I played sick the rest of the weekend in sonoma, sick again Tuesday night, and yesterday morning I had the best outing in recent memory against dan becker (closest thing I have to a coach.)
I even told dan I am playing well again before we started... confidence and how it relates to the natural up's and downs of tennis a strange thing.
Hopefully 11hr's of teaching doesn't cool off my game before Sunday!
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Permalink Reply by Hal Wagner on
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John, got stuff. We can be playing well and still lose matches. If you are playing guys that you are not "supposed" to beat and play solid and come out on short side, then no reason to doubt your game. So many factors, can be the hours on the court teaching, just not focusing, etc. Sometimes it takes an a$$ whooping to gets focused again. I try to never doubt my game if I'm playing well, but not winning against stronger players. If I'm losing to people I should be rolling then I need to do a checklist of what's going wrong. You know how I feel about comparing singles and dubs. You can do nothing wrong in dubs and still lose so hard to gauge. Singles could be more of your strategy and tactics than your serve or strokes. Gotta remember that some days we have it, some we don't we can lose with our A game and win with our B, C and even D games.
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