If You Can Keep Your Head

Success in the sport of tennis is rooted directly in your ability to handle emergencies.

Your opponent, if they are at all skilled, will try their level best to present you with situations that surprise and/or unbalance you in their effort to win points.

A clearly understood reality among first responders (Police-Fire and EMT Personnel) is that one won't generally rise to the occasion, but will actually fall to the level of their training!

Only the skills and responses that are fully integrated through purposeful and focused repetition are the skills and responses to be relied upon in an emergency.

Tennis, at its essence, is about creating emergencies for your opponent and defusing the emergencies they create for you!

Do the work so that you can enjoy the play! Fill your toolbox with reliable tools that are easily accessible to you and then practice choosing and executing the use of those tools in pressure situations until you respond automatically in the most logical manner for the situation at hand.

As I said earlier, TENNIS IS A GAME OF EMERGENCIES, so be sure your practices reflect the concept held as truth by First Responders and TRAIN UNTIL YOU OWN IT!