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This newsletter comes in two languages: English and Slovenian. You'll learn new tennis mental tips, find out solutions to common tennis challenges in the Q&A section and be the first to know what's new on the TennisMindGame.com website.

Ta newsletter bo izhajal v dveh jezikih: anglescini in slovenscini. V njem bodo povezave do novosti na TennisMindGame spletni strani, ker bo vecina v obeh jezikih.

Za slovensko verzijo se pomakni navzdol po emailu!

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Hi from Bangkok!

I'll be staying at the Tennis Academy of Asia for two months working and learning every day.

Hopefully I'll be able to share some of the experience from here.

If you want to read more about the Tennis Academy...

1. What's new

a) If you've followed the French Open you saw that Rafael Nadal was again in a league of his own.

He is an incredible player and we can all learn from him. Find out what you can learn from Rafael Nadal.

b) You’ve probably experienced the feeling of not being in control in the match. It’s that feeling which we often call “being lost”. You don’t know really what to do, you don’t know what exactly is happening and your game breaks apart. You just hit balls without the needed intention and concentration to play really good tennis.

What is this state, why does it happen and how to prevent it?

Loss of control and how to avoid it...

2. Q&A

This question comes from one of the buyers of the Mental Manual...

Q:

Hey there,

I decided to purchase your e-book to improve my mental game since I really felt like it was letting me down.

Firstly I'll let you know that I play the singles comp at my local Academy so I am not playing like professional tennis but still pretty competitive.

Anyway the competition involves an hour of singles play and the player with the most games at the end of the hour wins so in some ways it is different to actual tennis in that there is a time limit.

I would say that tennis wise I am at the same level as all the other players. Only thing is that mentally I have always crumbled in bigger situations very rarely have I come up with the goods on the bigger occasion.

On Saturday I played my match, hadn't hit a ball for four weeks but I managed to take a 10-6 lead with around 20min to go but at this stage (and looking for my first win in this terms comp) I became racked with nerves and desperately wanting to win and not lose such a big lead, of course the opposite happened and I managed to lose the last 5 games and the match 11-10 as you can imagine I was really disappointed and thinking how can I get over this! So I did a search and found your website and e-book so I thought I would give it a go. I read through it and tried to absorb the information for my next match which was last night and guess what? I won!!!

I wouldn't say I was in my favoured arousal state as I was fighting off thinking about the previous match but I managed to take an 8-3 lead by sticking with the game plan and the >>here and now<<. I did get a little tight when I lost two games for 8-5 I was thinking about the previous match which is understandable (acceptance) but managed to win as the hour was up.

I was really proud of myself! There is a lot to take in and remember but I did my best to implement all the stratagies and I think if I keep on working at it I will develop a sound mental game which I think has prevented me from playing my best tennis when it counts!

So thank you very much for your help :) :)

Here's three questions:

1. We play for 1hour and person with most games wins. I often get nervous when leading and knowing there is still say 20min to play and to maintain that lead, several times I have led only to lose in the last 10 minutes!!

How can I deal with this?

2. Although competitive there is social interaction in-between points and games. How do I keep my focus?

3. How do I remember all the main mental tips in your e-book in a match? I found myself at times trying to remember to much what to do and it got a little overwhelming, what do you think is the best way to remember without getting confused? So I have a clear head on the court but still know what to do?

Ok thanks again and look forward to your responses :)

A:
The answer is now in the Mental Tennis answers section.

3. Tennis Strategy Encyclopedia is close to the end. It got a little delayed since my planning and traveling to Bangkok took a lot of time...

Here's more from the ebook:

4 Basic Tennis Laws

If you are just starting with tennis competition, or just want to refresh your knowledge of how to play points, then following these four basic tennis laws will give you the foundation to build on.

Tennis matches on all levels still have one common characteristic: there are more errors in the game than winners. Especially shots that one of the players cannot reach. I tracked these statistics in a match between Roger Federer and Jiri Novak in the Masters Championships a couple of years ago.

Only 4% of the shots were clean winners. This means that only every 25th shot was unreachable, including service returns. (Aces didn’t count, because I wanted to know how many winners they hit in exchanging regular shots.)

So the first and the most basic tennis law is…

1. Don’t miss

Although I don’t like negative instructions and could maybe say this as “hit inside,” I wanted to point you to four ways (ok, maybe five) of missing the court.

You can lose a point by:

• hitting into the net (too low)
• hitting too long (too hard and/or too high)
• hitting too much to the left
• hitting too much to the right
• (you can also miss the ball completely)

So if you want to be a successful tennis player, you need to AVOID these mistakes.

That's it for this week, talk to you soon from Bangkok. ;)

Best, Tomaz

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Zivjo!

Danes vam pisem iz Bangkoka, kjer delam in se ucim v teniski akademiji. Uradni naziv je Tennis Academy of Asia in vec o akademiji lahko izveste na Tennis Academy.

Za vse navdusence Rafaela Nadala sem pripravil clanek, kjer lahko preberete, kaj vse se lahko tudi mi naucimo od tega izjemnega borca.

Rafael Nadal

In ce se niste odlocili za DVD Osnove teniske taktike, je se vedno cas, saj jih imava z Borutom se 15 na zalogi.

Osnove Teniske Taktike DVD

Do naslednjic,

Tomaz Mencinger

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