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MATT< email: snowboardacademy@gmail.com. Recommend. Strongly. Relates amazingly well to boys, on the right level. Gets to the heart of issue. Made my son reach a crisis, and come out the other side taking responsibility for his own tennis

Best thing I ever did was let my son have an hour with a sports psychologist. The guy's specialty wasn't even tennis, he worked with pro snowboarders and skiers. He came to our house. My son turned a new leaf mentally (and I had been despairing before that, his whole mental attitude was...

There you go! My son was the same with this guy he couldn't beat for so long, too. If you are that serious about winning against him, you need to change your approach. Losing to him makes you want to quit tennis? Take him seriously and you might both get a surprise.

The thing I hadn't considered, your Mum/Dad aren't into your tennis, so they don't know, so they aren't good for doing this talk I reckon you need to have immediately.... you have no coach.... SO You tell your friend Derek he has the job. You tell him it has to be a VERY SERIOUS talk. None...

Here's what you do: (I also think it unfair what the other poster said about you not being good enough) You get your Mum or Dad or coach to sit down with you. You discuss what it is about his game (ie. he's an athletic pusher who gets back every ball you hit.... forcing you to make errors, as...

re my post above. "making it" was again in reference to her Dad's ambition for her to be World Number One. I should have expanded on Emira's 'story' that I was aware of, especially from the content of that Sports Illustrated article. (Which may or may not be exaggerated journo piffle)...

I've been following Emira on Youtube for a year or two, and am mystified as to why she's not played matches, yet. Surely the desire to play tennis is about the game itself. Otherwise it's a sad mix of parental ambitions, fear of the real risk of failure (where all the real learning is done on...