Mental training: tips for tennis and everyday life

Keep your focus in the tiebreak

At 5:5 in the tiebreak, your thoughts drift to the result. With a fixed routine, your focus word and bounce-hit, you come back to the ball.

Practise your focus word: one word at the line

For the last second before the point, one word is enough. Here is how to find a focus word that points outwards and practise it in training.

Focus switch: wide, word, ball

Your focus has four settings: wide or narrow, outwards or inwards. What matters is switching at the right time.

Concentration in tennis: focus wide and narrow

Good concentration does not mean seeing everything all the time. It means setting your focus wide or narrow at the right moment and finding your way back to the ball quickly.

Go into practice with one focus

If you go into practice with one clear point, you know afterwards what went well. Here is how to set a focus in five minutes and hold on to the positives.