Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings of your opponent's mind, and assessing the effect of your own game on his/her head and also understanding the mental effects resulting from the different external causes on your own mind.
However, it is true that you cannot be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding your own mental processes. Therefore, you must study the effect on yourself of the same thing happening under different circumstances. This is because people react differently in different moods and under different conditions.
You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, pleasure, confusion, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it increase your prowess? If so, try for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the cause, or if that is not possible, strive to ignore it.
Once you have correctly measured your own reaction to circumstances, study your opponents in order to decide their temperaments. Like characters react similarly, and you may judge men of your own sort by yourself. Other temperaments you have to try to compare with those whose reactions you already know.
Someone who can control his/her own mental processes runs an excellent chance of reading those of someone else for the mind works along certain lines of thought and can be examined. One can only control one's own mental processes after carefully examining them.
The steady, unemotional baseline player is seldom a quick thinker. If he was, he would not adhere to the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a fairly clear indication of his/her kind of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who usually displays the baseline strategy, does so because he hates to stir up his/her torpid mind to work out a safe strategy of getting to the net.
Then there is the other sort of baseline player, who would rather remain on the back of the court while directing an attack intending to disrupt up your game. He is a very dangerous player, and a deep, keen thinking antagonist. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variety of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.
The first sort of tennis player mentioned above merely strikes the ball without much idea of what he is really doing, while the latter always has a definite strategy and adheres to it.
However, it is true that you cannot be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding your own mental processes. Therefore, you must study the effect on yourself of the same thing happening under different circumstances. This is because people react differently in different moods and under different conditions.
You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, pleasure, confusion, or whatever other form your reaction is. Does it increase your prowess? If so, try for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the cause, or if that is not possible, strive to ignore it.
Once you have correctly measured your own reaction to circumstances, study your opponents in order to decide their temperaments. Like characters react similarly, and you may judge men of your own sort by yourself. Other temperaments you have to try to compare with those whose reactions you already know.
Someone who can control his/her own mental processes runs an excellent chance of reading those of someone else for the mind works along certain lines of thought and can be examined. One can only control one's own mental processes after carefully examining them.
The steady, unemotional baseline player is seldom a quick thinker. If he was, he would not adhere to the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a fairly clear indication of his/her kind of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who usually displays the baseline strategy, does so because he hates to stir up his/her torpid mind to work out a safe strategy of getting to the net.
Then there is the other sort of baseline player, who would rather remain on the back of the court while directing an attack intending to disrupt up your game. He is a very dangerous player, and a deep, keen thinking antagonist. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variety of his/her game. He is a good psychologist.
The first sort of tennis player mentioned above merely strikes the ball without much idea of what he is really doing, while the latter always has a definite strategy and adheres to it.
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