You can’t be mentally tough without handling the routines in-between points properly. Player’s spend more time in a match dealing with their internal dialogue, than actually hitting a ball.

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t” - Jack Dempsey

It’s a hard thing to explain to someone if they haven’t gone through something incredibly difficult and challenging, and refused to back down. It can also seem like an unfair thing to explain to a young athlete, but it’s a necessary thing for them to learn.

Do you hate playing pushers? Do you feel lost playing against them, unsure of what the correct strategy is? Well that's no more. Here are 5 strategies to beat a pusher!

You’ve started to learn the drop shot, the slice, the serve and volley, and all these fun shots and you can’t wait to implement them. That’s what makes tennis fun! You have freedom of choice, and you can surprise your opponent at anytime. But sometimes you can surprise yourself by randomly going for a drop shot on an important point, when it’s actually one of the worst shots in your arsenal!

Both conclusions can be confidence boosters, but choosing the wrong analysis will prove to be detrimental in the future.

If you make adjustments where adjustments didn’t need to be made, then you’ll create a problem for no reason. On the other hand, if you don’t make any improvements in your game when you should have, then you’ll miss an opportunity to get better, and you’ll lose more matches because of the same mistakes.