Tennis psychology is only understanding the workings of your opponent’s mind, and gauging the effect of your own game on his/her head and also understanding the psychological effects resulting from the different external causes on your own mind.
Nevertheless, it is also true that you no one can be a successful psychologist of others without first understanding his own mental processes. So, you have to study the effect on yourself of the same thing happening under various conditions. This is because you react differently in different moods and under different conditions.
You must realize the effect on your game of the resulting irritation, pleasure, confusion, or whatever other form your reaction takes. Does it increase your prowess? If so, strive for it, but never give it to your opponent. Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the reason, or if that is not possible, try to ignore it.
Once you have accurately assessed your own reaction to circumstances, observe your opponents in order to determine their characters. Like temperaments react similarly, and you can judge men of your own kind by yourself. Other temperaments you must seek to compare with people whose reactions you know.
Someone who can control his/her own mental processes stands an excellent chance of reading those of someone else for the mind works along definite lines of thought and can be examined. One can only control one’s own mental processes after carefully examining them.
A steady, phlegmatic baseline player is seldom a quick thinker. If he was he would not adhere to the baseline. The physical appearance of a player is often a pretty clear indicator of his/her sort of mind. The stolid, easy-going player, who usually advocates the baseline game, does so because he hates to stir up his/her torpid mind to think out a safe strategy of reaching the net.
Then there is the other type of baseline player, who would rather stay at the back of the court while directing an attack intending to break up your game. He is a very dangerous player and a deep, keen thinking opponent. He achieves his/her results by mixing up his/her length and direction and worrying you with the variance of his/her game. This player is a good psychologist.
The first kind of tennis player mentioned above just hits the ball without much thought about what he is actually up to, while the latter always has a solid, thought-out plan and adheres to it.
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