ha ha, funny, I wanted to leave the court after 30 minutes of playing yet alone watching miself on video.
Actually threw the racquet around 3 times (never happened before to me that it got to me so much) and hit a few balls full power in the net when making a mistake, and hit the net a few times with racquet.
I completely lost it and I wanted to just leave, didn't feel like playing at all.
Poor mentality.
I didnt see the ball well, I was uninspired and low energy, feet were lazy, extremely bad decision making, my service games were also very poor
Poor mentality.
The problem is when you play like sh*t, how do you not get that?
Have you never played like sh*t before?
Poor mentality.
Maybe he never played "like sh*t" before in his view, just bad or below average. People with good mentality are good at preventing their game from tanking, and even if they can't, they still won't get disturbed and think they're playing "like sh*t", just not as great as they would hope. They dig deep, find shots that work, and make adjustments to the ones that don't.
I used to have a similar mentality. "F*ck me, I'm playing like garbage." "God damn it, I'm playing like sh*t right now!" It never helps other than to slide you further into a less competitive mindset. Sometimes, you can sort out your emotions just long enough to retain focus and play well again for a few points, and if you're lucky you string enough points along to gain momentum and turn your mindset around. But usually, you hit another error and your mentality tanks again and you lose focus.
Then I watched this video and it changed my mindset.
I'd still say I'm mentally weak, but in a short time I became a much stronger player mentally. I became far more competitive as a player because I could control my head a little better. In practice, I might still get a hot head, but in matches I'm a lot more controlled. I'm beating players that should be able to easily beat me based on technique (more consistent in practice, more spin on groundstrokes, as much if not slightly more pace). It's all because I don't care who my opponent is anymore, or how they hit, or how many mistakes I make or how bad I play. I focus on what I need to do to win, and that is to execute the highest percentage game plan I can execute, to push myself to move as well as I can and fight for every ball, and to control my head.
Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic are human, and yet how do they win so many matches? They must have plenty of off days, and yet they keep winning. It's because they don't use excuses like "I'm playing like sh*t" to stop them from doing what needs to be done. They might admit to not playing well, but they'll also praise their opponent for playing well, maintaining that level, and doing what needed to be done to close the match out before the big 3 could come back in the match. You can be sure that the big 3 did the best they could to throw their opponent off their game and bring their game down to their sub-par level as well, but the other player player didn't let it happen. It happens, sometimes you don't play your best and your opponent is playing very well. It sucks, but you won't regret it as much or feel as bad if you did everything in your power, physically and mentally, to turn things around and win that match. You left everything on the court, and that's all you could do.
