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Getting in the 'Zone' - A Player's Perspective

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Getting in the 'Zone' - A Player's Perspective

Every competitive tennis player has experienced playing in the “zone” at some point in their career. You feel dynamic, but calm and relaxed. You have a feeling of strength, confidence and invulnerability. You take pleasure in the match and the battle at hand, without worrying about losing, or even winning for that matter. You forget about technical flaws, you focus on the ball and your target. In the end, you just play, and everything seems to flow, in so much that you might even lose track of time and the score. Seem familiar?

Whether you’ve experienced the zone during a competitive match or not, many will agree that the feelings I just described represent an ideal mental state to play elite level tennis. So what if I told you that you could get in the zone on command?

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Testing in Tennis - Time for a Change?

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Testing in Tennis - Time for a Change?

Not long ago, I received the following question “What are some fitness tests I could run my tennis players through. Just some measurements they could aim to improve?”.

This question actually comes up time and again. For me, the question has layers…

You see, I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of testing on many occasions - you know what I’m referring to...going through a battery of tests, recording sprint times, jump heights and so on…

And never really using the data in any meaningful way.

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