Tennis psychology is the same as understanding the workings of your opponent's mind and assessing the effect of your own strategy on his/her mental viewpoint and also understanding the mental effects resulting from the various external causes on your own head.
However, it is also true that you no one can be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding his own mental processes. Therefore, you must study the effect on yourself of the same thing happening under different circumstances. This is because people react differently in different moods and under different circumstances.
You have to understand the effect on your game of the resulting annoyance, joy, bewilderment, or whatever other form your reaction takes. Does it improve your prowess? If so, go for it, but never offer it to your opponent. Does it rob you of concentration? If so, either remove the cause, but if that isn't possible, try to ignore it.
After you have properly judged your own reaction to circumstances, study your opponents to determine their characters. Like characters react in a like manner, and you can judge people of your own sort by yourself. Opposite temperaments you have to try to liken with those people, whose reactions you are already familiar with.
A person who can regulate his/her own mental processes has an great chance of reading those of someone else for the minds works along certain lines of thought and can be studied. One can only control one's own mental processes after examining them very carefully .
A steady, unemotional baseline player is rarely a keen thinker. If he were, he would not stay on the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is usually a pretty clear indicator of his/her type of mind. The impassive, easy-going player, who normally advocates the baseline game, does it because he does not want to activate up his/her slow mind to think out a reliably safe strategy of getting to the net.
However, then there is the other type of baseline player, who would rather remain on the rear of the court while supervising an attack intending to disrupt up your game. He is a very dangerous player and a deep, keen thinking antagonist. He achieves his/her results by changing his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variance of his/her game. This player is a very good psychologist.
The first type of player mentioned above merely hits the ball with little idea of what he is actually doing, while the latter always has a definite plan and adheres to it.
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