When I get lazy and neglect some of these elements, my statistics go way down. To win, I've got to deliberately focus on the same pattern, serve after serve after serve, game after game, all the way into the 3rd set tiebreaker. First of all, winning is not boring. I always feel better about an ugly, tenacious win than I do about an aesthetically pretty loss. No thoughts of work or bills or responsibilities or troubles or the trivialities of life on planet earth.
Great tennis matches up well against good sex.
Immerse yourself in the moment. Forget stroke mechanics. This column is copyright 1999 by Dave Stone, all rights reserved. You will receive notification each month of changes at the Tennis Server and news of new Wild Cards columns. All original material and graphics on the WWW Tennis Server are copyrighted 1994 - 1999 by The Tenagra Corporation and its sponsors and contributors.