Is tennis in your head?

April 15th, 2010

Vic Braden's Mental Tennis: How to Psych Yourself to a Winning Game

So you’ve spent lots of money on your tennis racquet and have spend several hours on the tennis court, hitting thousands of forehands, backhands, volleys, overhead smashes, and serves. But what are you going to do next? Of course you want to see how you match up against another competitor in a tennis tournament setting. You got your USTA membership, you found the next tournament, you have you NTRP level picked out – most players are between a 3.5 to 4.5. All things are ready to go and the time has come to prove what you have worked so hard for. You get those pre match jitters and you think all will be well when it’s time to play.

The next thing you know it’s 6-0, 6-0 and you’re out! What the deuce??? Didn’t you work hard perfecting your game? You should have at least gotten in a game, right? Well here’s the deal, like most sports, tennis is mostly mental. You have to be in the match the whole time, that includes your mind! Yes, tennis has a mind game involved. All that court time you’ve put in is great and all, but you have also have to be mentally tough. Most, if not all tennis pros have their brain farts and lose a match (case in point, Nadal – French Open – 2009…nuff said).

So how do you fix it? You have to train your brain off the tennis court. In this little book there are so many little things that you can to do fix and perfect the mental game of tennis! Trust us, we’ve read it and it sure as heck has help us all – regardless of skill level.

Remember, we’re only trying to help your tennis game folks!

Martina Navratilova Diagnosed with Breast Cancer

April 7th, 2010

We just found out that tennis great and 9 time Wimbledon champion, Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with breast cancer. People magazine has early reports that Martina was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2010, however; her prognosis is looking great.

People.com reports that Navratilova had a lumpectomy and will begin six weeks of radiation therapy next month. It added that the tennis hall of famer was diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS.

Here at Tennisthis.com, we wish Martina the best of luck with her battle against breast cancer and we hope to see her on court as soon as possible. Our thoughts are with her and her family.

In light of Andy Roddick’s win today in Miami…

April 4th, 2010

Hey folks,

We found this neat video of a young Andy Roddick playing Lleyton Hewitt in Miami in 2001. You’ll see that Andy used to make a ton more unforced errors back in the day – but he still had the powerful serve and whipping forehand. Congratulations Andy Roddick for your win today in Miami!

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this tennis video and hope you all had a great Easter weekend!