@ Lindenwold tomorrow for 2pm match start time .. NJSIAA Playoff Match #2

A short explanation by USTA sports psychologist David Porter, on how the score in a set will affect a player's strategy. Porter discusses the importance of recognizing and changing a losing strategy or closing out on a winning strategy.  The first two games! Directing and also relaxing your focus during and or over the course of a tennis match, is a skill to be recognized & practiced by the match participants. 

I am excited to see us put our best foot forward on Monday at Lindenwold, and I know the polish we've been working on, moreover grooving our different strokes, over the last few days in practice, will shine through tomorrow against our well known opponent. Let the chips fall where they may, and just try and be the best player you are capable of being for a good majority of this match, and irrelevant of the person or persons you are playing or the score of a game you are playing with this person.  I'd recommend this easy mental exercise to all, since we know our opponents well, to take sometime and visualize all the points you played really well in those two prior matches, run them over like a tape in your mind.   This type of visualization stuff, its funny how it really does work.  I am visualizing, right now, looking down the court row and seeing everyone of our varsity starters doing very on  many facets of their tennis games, that I got so excited I started forgetting the game and even set score of the match right in front of me.