Quite a few years ago I discovered the power of the inner game of tennis while competing in an Inter-State tennis competition.

I was down 5-1 and trying to work out how to win my singles match. I decided that I had to do something different. So I concentrated on playing each point, ignoring the overall score.

I leveled the set at 6-6 but was very quickly down 6-2 in the seven point tiebreaker. Again I re-focused and went on to win the tiebreaker 8-6 and the set, My singles win was critical to our State winning the Inter-State competition.

This experience bought home to me the power of the inner game of tennis. I began to appreciate the tennis mind game and learned to develop my tennis mind strategy.

Another experience taught me the power of Tai Chi to improve my tennis game. I discovered that this mind and body discipline helped me to become more grounded, focused and balanced when playing tennis. My tennis volleys improved immensely.

Later on I learned some visualization techniques and how to use action research/ review to improve my tennis game on a continuous basis.

I cover what I have learned in this FREE e-Book:

Playing the Inner Game of Tennis

I also provide further resources, videos, articles and tennis tips on my Squidoo lens:

The Inner Game of Tennis