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Focus and energy are related to self belief and confidence. Nerves. Locking up under pressure is related to nerves/fear/lack of belief. Everyone suffers from it occasionally, even Federer. Although these are more important than stroke errors and ue, most of us don't practice energy focus, and self belief. The mechanic deals with it via a lot of practice reps. The magician deals with it by feeling the frame, and strings, and dialing in those two things exactly. But how many can say, I practice my energy focus? How many can say, I can move faster when I have to, calm down when I have to, play better when I have to?
Then there are the stroke adjustments, we can make during a match, to deal with various types of opponents. Most ues emanate from the frist strike of the ball, the return, or the serve. We get behind the power curve immediately against a good player's shot. We don't put them in an emergency situation right away, and so find ourselves the ones on the run. So we make too many ue, under a variety of match pressures.
Solutions: First use bellows breathing, a yoga technique, that relaxes you, quick/deep/breaths after the point is over. That will relax your energy and calm heart rate and nerves. Visualize winning. See the score coming up in your favor. Project that to your opponent's mind.
Second, examine how you are missing: in the net, wide, or long. In the net means your clearance has to be higher, less flat, and not so far out in front on the contact points. Long means you are hitting too late, and thus coming too far under the ball. Use the court lines to gauge where your contact points need to be to adjust them, such as: the service lines/box, and decide to hit the ball at the right point from now on.
Many other stroke techniques to adjust against the grinder, the all courter, the pusher, the change of rhythm guy, etc.
Focus and energy are related to self belief and confidence. Nerves. Locking up under pressure is related to nerves/fear/lack of belief. Everyone suffers from it occasionally, even Federer. Although these are more important than stroke errors and ue, most of us don't practice energy focus, and self belief. The mechanic deals with it via a lot of practice reps. The magician deals with it by feeling the frame, and strings, and dialing in those two things exactly. But how many can say, I practice my energy focus? How many can say, I can move faster when I have to, calm down when I have to, play better when I have to?
Then there are the stroke adjustments, we can make during a match, to deal with various types of opponents. Most ues emanate from the frist strike of the ball, the return, or the serve. We get behind the power curve immediately against a good player's shot. We don't put them in an emergency situation right away, and so find ourselves the ones on the run. So we make too many ue, under a variety of match pressures.
Solutions: First use bellows breathing, a yoga technique, that relaxes you, quick/deep/breaths after the point is over. That will relax your energy and calm heart rate and nerves. Visualize winning. See the score coming up in your favor. Project that to your opponent's mind.
Second, examine how you are missing: in the net, wide, or long. In the net means your clearance has to be higher, less flat, and not so far out in front on the contact points. Long means you are hitting too late, and thus coming too far under the ball. Use the court lines to gauge where your contact points need to be to adjust them, such as: the service lines/box, and decide to hit the ball at the right point from now on.
Many other stroke techniques to adjust against the grinder, the all courter, the pusher, the change of rhythm guy, etc.