Tennis Psychology (Part 1)
Posted on July 4, 2009
Filed Under Tennis
Tennis psychology is only understanding the workings of your opponent’s mind, and gauging the effect of your own game on his/her head and also understanding the psychological 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 you react differently in different moods and under different conditions.
You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting annoyance, joy, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it improve your efficiency? If so, try for it, but never give it to your opponent. Does it rob you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, or if that is not possible, try to ignore it.
Once you have correctly assessed your own reaction to conditions, observe your opponents in order to decide their temperaments. Similar temperaments react similarly, and you may judge men of your own sort by yourself. Other temperaments you must seek to compare with people whose reactions you already know.
A person who can control his/her own mental processes stands an excellent chance of reading those of another for the mind works along definite lines of thought and can be studied. One can only control one’s own mental processes after carefully studying them.
The regular, unemotional baseline player is rarely a quick thinker. If he were, he would not adhere to the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is usually a fairly clear indicator of his/her kind of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who normally advocates the baseline strategy, does it because he does not want to stir up his/her slow mind to think out a reliably safe method of getting to the net.
However, then there is the other sort of baseline player, who would prefer to stay at the rear of the court while supervising an attack intended to disrupt up your game. He is a much more dangerous player and a deep, quick thinking antagonist. He gets his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variety of his/her game. This player is a very good psychologist.
The first type of tennis player mentioned above just hits the ball without much thought about what he is really doing, while the latter always has a solid, thought-out strategy and sticks to it.
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