Basic Tennis Psychology (Part 1)
Posted on July 1, 2009
Filed Under Tennis
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 head and also understanding the psychological effects resulting from the various external causes on your own mind.
Nevertheless, it is also true that you no one can be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding his own mental processes. So, you have to study the effect on yourself of the same thing happening under various conditions. This is because you react differently in different moods and under different circumstances.
You have to understand the effect on your game of the resulting annoyance, pleasure, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it increase your efficiency? If so, try 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, try to ignore it.
Once you have correctly measured your own reaction to conditions, observe your opponents in order to determine their temperaments. Similar characters react similarly, and you can judge men of your own sort by yourself. Different temperaments you must try to liken with people whose reactions you already know.
A person who can regulate his/her own mental processes runs an excellent chance of determining those of another for the minds works along definite lines of thought and can be examined. One may only regulate one’s own mental processes after studying them meticulously.
The steady, unemotional baseline player is seldom a quick thinker. If he was, he would not stay on the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a pretty clear indication of his/her sort of mind. The impassive, easy-going player, who usually displays the baseline strategy, does so because he hates to activate up his/her torpid mind to work out a safe strategy of reaching the net.
Then there is the other type of baseline player, who would prefer to stay 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, quick thinking antagonist. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variance of his/her game. This player is a good psychologist.
The first kind of tennis player mentioned above just hits the ball without much idea of what he is actually up to, while the latter always has a solid, thought-out plan and adheres to it.
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