Tennis psychological problem????

Hey Sunny! Glad to see you!

I have a some good news and some bad news for you. The good news is that you can change and improve your practice sessions by changing your attitude and approach going into it. Jim gave you great advice on what kind of mindset you need to have going in. Here's the bad news...fixing that particular mindset is imparitive if you want to compete at the highest level and it's not easy.

The reason it's so important is because as you progress, you'll run into players that are bigger, stronger, faster than you. If you step onto the court in fear, the match is over before the first ball is served! 80% of your success between the lines is all between the ears. Besides, what's your coach going to do if you step onto the court with a "no retreat, no surrender" attitude and screw something up, put you in tennis jail? You really have nothing to lose and at this stage in your career, you need to be experimenting with what works for you.

Seek your zone and crave it everytime you step to the baseline regardless of who's standing across the net!

Remember, tennis is a contact sport! Go get 'em, Killer!

Just a simple case of nerves. You summed it up when you said that you feel that your coach is a figure to be feared and respected. The kids you play against you just want to beat your coach you want to impress. Since you know how good you can play and he does as well why not just go out on court next time not fearing or trying to respect your coach but rather just trying to kick his ***. Think of him as a big dumb new kid that thinks he can beat you, so you have to show him whose boss.

Yeah Tsonga is in a zone I think he will beat Djokovic in the final in either 3 or 4 if Nole get by Fed but Fed over Tsonga in 4 or 5.

Sounds like your afraid of screwing up in front of your coach so you overwork yourself and get nervous and try to hit everything perfectly. I think your not comfortable with playing with your coach and that you should just relax and play like you always do. Or it just takes the competitiveness nature for you to bring out your true skills, do you play like crap when you rally with friends or other people non competitively?

hehe i'm kinda the same , when i train one on one i always choke up and miss hit a lot make a lot of stupid mistakes.

but when I'm playing in a more public place or competition with people watching me , i don't know but something in me clicks and i just want to show off lol and i cant believe some of the shots i can pull off . i know it sounds vain but i cant help it lol !

like you said yourself , your competitive instinct kicks in.

in a training session you have nothing to win and nothing to lose so your not as motivated to perform.

You're like Federer. People who grew up playing with Federer said that he would never win in a practice match, but in a real match, all of a sudden, Federer would kick their asses.

Be brave