04/07/2019
Are you getting enough sleep? If not, why?
Why Roger Federer Sleeps Twelve Hours a Day | With Neuroscientist Matthew Walker
For elite athletes, sleep is the greatest performance enhancing drug of all. In this short video, neuroscientist Professor Matthew Walker, author of the inte...
10/06/2019
Congratulations to on his 12th French Open Title!🇫🇷🎾🏆🇪🇸
Novak Djokovic vs Dominic Thiem - Semi-Final Highlights | Roland-Garros 2019
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10/06/2019
This man is unbelievable!!
Nike – Rafael Nadal – Rally
Crazy dreams take crazy effort. 18 career majors. 12 French titles. Congratulations, Rafael Nadal.
06/06/2019
Who will pass to the final?!
I go with Rafa this time...
Rafa vs. Roger ###IX: Can Federer score first win over Nadal in Paris?
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06/06/2019
Games people play on the court
That something else besides tennis is being player on the tennis court is obvious to the most casual observer.
Regardless of whether he is watching the game at a country club, a public park or a private court, he will see players suffering everything from minor frustration to mayor exasperation.
He will see the stomping of feet, shaking of fists, war dances, rituals, pleas, oaths and prayers; rackets are thrown against fences in anger, into the air for joy, or pounded against the concrete in disgust.
Balls that are in will be called out and vice versa. Linesmen are threatened, ball boys scolded and the integrity of friends questioned.
On the faces of players you may observe, in quick succession, shame, pride, ecstasy and despair. Smug complacency gives way to high anxiety, cockiness to hangdog disappointment.
Anger and aggression of varying intensity are expressed both openly and in disguised forms.
If an observer was watching the game for the first time, it would be hard for him to believe that all this drama could be contained on a mere tennis court, between love-all and game, set and match.
This was an excerpt from The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey one of the best books on tennis I’ve ever read.
Have you read any good tennis book? If so, share it with me in the comments 🙂📚🎾
29/05/2019
Tennis is about feeling and flowing. Not thinking and forcing.
Do you think you are trying too hard? 🥵
It is one of the most common problems I see often in recreational tennis players. When a player is “trying too hard” what they mean is that they are letting their conscious mind take too much control of their actions.
Unfortunately, the conscious mind is too slow to play tennis. That’s why it needs to try really hard.
If in the middle of a point you consider, just for a fraction of a second, bringing your conscious mind into the point. Then it might cost you to be in a late position already.
I’ve found that the only way to play tennis at a high level is that you must let go of any conscious control. And let your unconscious mind and body do the rest.
This is one of the cornerstone topics of the book “The Inner Game of Tennis” by Timothy Gallwey.
29/04/2019
Being confortable doing the uncomfortable is essential for success in tennis and also in life.
24/04/2019
Don’t let them fool you! Even super stars feel like giving up from time to time. What is that makes them keep going?
Probably you have felt like giving up at some point in your career. I’m sure I’ve felt that way more times than the ones I can count.
These feelings of self doubt are not only for “normal” people like you and me, professionals also feel that way, and they do it more often than you may think.
How is that professionals can allow those thoughts of self-doubt and stress and still succeed? What is that allows them to perform at such high levels regardless of their negative thinking?
The answer is: PROFESSIONALS DON’T TAKE FAILURE (AND SUCCESS) PERSONALLY.
On the words of Steven Pressfield
“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. Her artistic self contains many works and many performances. Already the next is percolating inside her. The next will be better, and the one after that better still.”
Not taking their failures and successes personally doesn’t mean that professionals don’t want to work hard or that they don’t want to win. Of course, they want to win, what it means is that they are not going to let those experiences (positive or negative) define who they are or what are they capable of.
Pressfield also mentions that
“The professional self-validates. She is tough-minded. In the face of indifference or adulation, she assesses her stuff coldly and objectively. Where it fell short, she'll improve it. Where it triumphed, she'll make it better still. She'll work harder. She'll be back tomorrow.”
Professionals don’t believe the ways others define them. They know their self-worth and also know that they are not as good neither as bad as people say they are. That is why professionals always get better and never give up.
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