Ahead of the Game - Player Development Model

Tennis Players are content with being a talent and leaving it to talent. Tennis Competitors strip it back and give themselves key jobs.

In other words, Tennis Players are happy to leave it to chance and hope that things go right; they fall back on their ‘talent’. …

Tennis Players hold beliefs about themselves, the game and tennis life that impact their ability to cope in a tennis environment. This is because those beliefs are often untrue and unhelpful.

Tennis Competitors have checked and challenged their beliefs, they know …

Creating a game within the game is one of favourite ways to raise the focus and purpose within a tennis session. 

A game within a game is way of focusing attention toward a smaller task & away from larger less controllable tasks. There are lots of ways to do this …