Tennis Under Pressure - by Rob Sperry (Paperback)

About the Book

You beat these players in practice but lose to them in matches. "Be tougher" never told you how. A 25-year coach's system for training the brain that walks onto the court and becoming tougher than the number on your ranking.

Book Synopsis

In practice, you beat these players. In matches, you don't. The serve that never misses in the warm-up breaks on break point. You've been told for years to "just be tougher" and it has never once told you what to actually do.

Tougher is a wish. This book is a system.

Tennis Under Pressure is about training the brain that walks onto the court. Written by a coach with twenty-five years on the bench and twelve state titles behind him, it takes apart what really happens to a player at 5-3 in the third and gives you the tools to change it.

Part One is the science of pressure: why it exposes you instead of changing you, why "be tougher" fails, and what your body and your self-talk are actually doing on the big points. Part Two is the system you can run tomorrow a 90-day plan, a UTR survival guide for players and parents, the car-ride-home conversation that wins or loses more matches than any lesson, scenario rehearsal, body-language resets, and a pressure-point protocol for the moments that decide everything.

You'll learn how the best in the game rebuilt their minds under the worst pressure imaginable, and how to borrow what they did.

This book is for the junior who keeps losing to players they should beat. For the parent behind the fence who doesn't know what to say in the car. For the coach watching talented kids quietly stop competing. For the college and league player whose game holds up everywhere except the points that count.

The goal of all of it is one thing: to make you tougher than the number.

Pressure does not change you. It exposes you. This book teaches you what to do about it.