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Jan 26, 2010, Courage - The Key Mental Skill Of Tennis Champions

There are many fears that are holding you back. You'll defeat them with courage and not with classical sports psychology techniques like concentration, activation control or others.

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Jan 24, 2010, Mark

I just had to share some thoughts about this website. In short it is amazing, I have been looking for something like this for years. I consider

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Jan 24, 2010, how to keep focus during a match and how to deal with mistakes

My biggest concern is how do I keep focus during a whole match. And how to cut out mistakes in the most important parts of the match in tournaments.

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Jan 5, 2010, Which Is Better: One-Handed Or Two-Handed Backhand?

A lot of discussion is going on about which backhand is better: the one-handed or the two-handed. If we agree on a definition of better (i.e., more efficient for tennis competition), than it is not hard to see which one is better by comparing both of their advantages and disadvantages.

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Jan 2, 2010, Congratulations for your desire to help - No strings attached on your site...

I feel wonderful after finding your site on Google. I am an intermediate level player, and recently moved to work on the field (outside the city).

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Jan 2, 2010, Fear of not playing as well as I want to or can. And fear of my opponent thinking I'm weak

I get scared that no matter what I do it won't work on the court. That I'm not good enough to play well. This then causes me to be scared of the

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Dec 30, 2009, Constant losses

Hi my name is David and this is my problem :(. I began playing tennis in fourth grade and my friend began in sixth grade and we are the same age

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Dec 28, 2009, Love the site. It's great.

With your site I can even correct my Tennis Pro when he omits the various progression steps when teaching a new stroke. .....Send Ana K. over!

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Dec 26, 2009, The Will to Keep Fighting

Hey everyone, my name is Jonathan. This is a match I had a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to share with everyone. It was me vs my dad and we play

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Dec 22, 2009, Net play

when i practice my volleys and smashes stationery at the net, i'm not half bad, but i reckon in match play its my approach shot that needs work. in

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