After playing tennis with friends, we drank coffee and chatted. The topics are all over the place, and we can’t help but talk about our beloved tennis.
Tennis is fun. In addition to testing one’s physical strength and skills, it is also a sport that particularly tests one’s mental quality. Sometimes the winner or loser of two evenly matched opponents is not about technique, but about psychological quality.
Every point in a tennis match has two chances to serve, a first error and a second chance. This seems like an insurance policy, but it is actually a double psychological test. When I serve for the first time, I know that even if I make a mistake, I can still have a second serve, so the psychological burden is not heavy. I mostly relax and try my best on this serve, with sufficient strength and ball speed, showing the true power of the serve. But if you make a mistake on this serve and it is the second serve’s turn, the psychological burden will increase immediately, because if you make another mistake, you will lose points directly, so be careful. This serve will not be as unscrupulous as the first serve, and the power and speed will not be the same. Slowing down, the result is that the advantage of serving often gives the opponent an opportunity to attack the enemy. However, it is precisely for this reason that the opponent’s mentality changes when responding to the second serve. They either become relaxed, or they want to take advantage of the weakness of the opponent’s second serve and rush to make achievements. The opportunity for mistakes is not worth the loss.
This is how tennis tests your psychological quality in competition. One is ebbing and the other is ebbing. Winning is often not due to one’s playing particularly well, but to the opponent’s many mistakes. There is a term in tennis called “Unforced Error”, which is translated in Chinese as “making mistakes without pressure”. This translation is not quite correct, because there must be pressure on the court. This pressure either comes from the opponent or from oneself, so any mistake cannot be “Make mistakes without pressure.” As for how to avoid making mistakes under pressure, what matters is psychological quality. Most players who perform well on the court have a psychological quality that can stand the test. This is the same as being a winner in life. Those who can play tennis play tennis on the court, and those who cannot play tennis are actually playing tennis off the court.
Li Chun’en
2023-12-15 16:00:00
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