Tennis Getting In “The Zone”

Whether you have perfect strokes or not you can improve your game and raise your level of play by improving your minds focus.  Most players at one time or another have experienced being in “The Zone” or sometimes it is called “Being Treed”.  It is almost an out of body experience when you have this feeling of confidence that you are controlling destiny.  Time seems to slow down and you can enjoy the event because you know that the outcome is going to be in your favor.

An excellent but involved article discussing the thought process that helps you reach this state of mind was written by Robert Nideffer, Ph.D..  It is called "Calming The Mind So The Body Can Perform" and it discusses our ability to focus on broad/narrow external things and broad/narrow internal things.  As it relates to tennis external would be (broad) your surroundings and (narrow) your shot, internal it would be (broad) comparing previous experiences and (narrow) analysis of shot being hit.

A bit deep but if you would like to read the entire article you can click on this link: Tennis Getting In "The Zone"