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“My consistency is based on my mental strength. It is basically impossible to break down my mental part these days. I think that is very important, because tennis is quite a mental sport." Roger Federer, 2005 As we can see from the above quote the mental side of tennis performance is extremely important. Yet mental skills are not ‘taught’ in a structured fashion in the same way as you might learn technical or tactical skills. This therefore places a large emphasis on the personality of the players themselves and their inherent ‘mental strength’, as well as the quality of coaching that they receive, in determining players’ ability to fight the mental battle. The Batchwood programme is specifically designed to help players learn how to improve their mental strength and generally build up the key mental skills required for high performance tennis. Scott Bradley, the Batchwood Sports Psychologist, teaches players essential mental skills techniques as part of an ongoing programme: Mental Skills: Mental Skills Course Dates - click here for details Mental skills course program structure - click here for details
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