If you want to be a great tennis player then you absolutely have to be a great competitor.
Lleyton Hewitt; Jimmy Connors; David Ferrer; Rafa Nadal ... all supreme competitors. With this in mind, here are my buddy Werner's 8 rules for being a great competitor:
1. Don't be perfect - winning or losing a point doesn't make you more or less.
2. Line-up - after mistakes you need to be ready for the next point. The two things you need to manage are your attitude and intentions.
3. Don't fix yourself, manage yourself.
4. No Bulls%$§ - nothing stops you from competing ... not even a bomb going off on the next court.
5. Stay external - keep the focus away from yourself and focus on how to make the opponent suffer ... tactics anyone?
6. Clarity - know what's happening tactically and why momentum is a certain way.
7. Controllable - focus only on what you can control ... attitude, intensity, effort level on each point.
8. Fight feelings - base what you do on tactics and targets and not feelings and emotions.
That's some pretty sound advice.
Lleyton Hewitt; Jimmy Connors; David Ferrer; Rafa Nadal ... all supreme competitors. With this in mind, here are my buddy Werner's 8 rules for being a great competitor:
1. Don't be perfect - winning or losing a point doesn't make you more or less.
2. Line-up - after mistakes you need to be ready for the next point. The two things you need to manage are your attitude and intentions.
3. Don't fix yourself, manage yourself.
4. No Bulls%$§ - nothing stops you from competing ... not even a bomb going off on the next court.
5. Stay external - keep the focus away from yourself and focus on how to make the opponent suffer ... tactics anyone?
6. Clarity - know what's happening tactically and why momentum is a certain way.
7. Controllable - focus only on what you can control ... attitude, intensity, effort level on each point.
8. Fight feelings - base what you do on tactics and targets and not feelings and emotions.
That's some pretty sound advice.
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