This tip is to open your eyes to possibilities! Know your situation.
Back in the day I am coaching vs Canada and they had a very emotional lady who was a tough cookie. She had our player in a tie-breaker at match point. I do not know how I knew it but I did; If that Canadian Coach had done anything to emotionally charge that athlete for one point-anything-the Canadian athlete would have won. Instead, he sat back all unemotional and my player came back and won.
For lack of better phraseology you have to “smell the goal line” is a saying from my football days. The great ones smell the finish line and find a way to get there.
Let’s say at Match point he jumped up and showed some emotion in a visible way the athlete would see! That would have been a “match over” moment! Instead opportunity passed him by.
Where do I get these ideas? From watching matches. Like that little kid in the movie, “I see dead people”, I see lost opportunities! Oh and emotional outburst at 9 or 8–is too early–has to be match or game point–and I want to see some foaming at the mouth intensity out there!
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