Stress managament in tennis

Tennis is a mental game. The competitive environment puts a lot of pressure on players so the ones who don’t deal well with the stress, can’t perform at their best level. It is especially visible when players play well during the practice sessions but are not able to play at a similar level during the tournament.

Here comes stress management. It is impossible to avoid the stress because tennis is full of it. The better solution is to learn how to control the level of stress to make sure that this pressure allows players to play at their best. It is important to understand that stress is not good or bad - the level of stress can be helpful or detrimental. By working on developing specific mental tools, tennis players can cope with stress more effectively than their rivals and they increase the chance to show their full potential during the most important matches.

In this course, you will find all the knowledge and tools that you need to play well while being under pressure. Effective stress management doesn’t come with the number of matches played so you shouldn’t play more tournaments to get better results. Effective stress management comes with specific skills that have to be trained daily to make sure that players are prepared for the reality of tennis competitions. 

Course content:

• Stress explanation
• The reasons of stress
• The physical symptoms of stress
• The mental symptoms of stress
• Proper approach to stress
• Popular mistakes related to stress
• Tools needed to manage stress effectively
• Plan of stress management development