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Persistence versus Walking Away: Tennis Players

Whether tennis is your sport of choice or you’re involved in another this is equally as applicable and coaches to parents and/or guardians please take note. There comes a time in a player’s to child’s very early life when they’re posed with some tricky decisions and some of them being the most hardest decisions they’ve had to make in their young life to date and a caring to supporting team (i.e. recall that triangular approach) to family is of the utmost importance. Sadly, this isn’t always the case and if more parents/guardians and coaches took on this advice we’d have more well-rounded players/athletes opposed to those drenched in the fear of pressure and its potential consequences.

Recall and refresh on previous Blogs (and their accompanying episodes) on Self-Worth to Mental Health and a myriad of topics discussed between with our extensive catalogue to date for a broader understanding. Persistence verses Walking Away serves a different purpose, however, insofar as a warning for all coaches and parents/guardians out there…

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To learn more about our data, predictive analytics and how to optimise your own performance, head on over to AM8 International. To learn more about AM8 International check out our selection of Books and/or options to join Dr B’s Pack to gain exclusive access to the best in the world. Not quite ready? Head on over to Beyond Top 10 Tennis for free access to 100+ episodes directly from Dr Berge of what it really takes to win multiple Grand Slams to securing that Top 10 tennis ranking with new episodes each week. More? Catch up on our Tips over on TikTok, Twitter, Threads or Instagram for quick snippets to apply in your game, today.

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Age Interactions: Tennis Players

Outside of the developmental spectrum of the tennis player, Age Interactions are often commonplace with ‘age’ not being seen as a barrier to interact with other children and/or adolescents (within reason) and this is even more profound during adulthood whereby age truly is merely a number. This couldn’t be more true on the WTA and/or ATP tours where age is essentially irrelevant over ranking with the later taking precedence and age really an indicator of longevity in particular if a player is at the top of the game. At this moment in time, the ATP tour is privy to Top 10 players with a diverse age — from later 30’s to now on the cusp of 20’s onwards. With a near two-decade age gap the level of play resonates with the Top 10 and age really is irrelevant.

Similar differences can be seen on the WTA tour, however, with the retirement of one of our most ‘senior’ players — Serena Williams, the age range begins in the late teens to still spans across early 30’s. Whilst players on the WTA tour are not as ‘senior’ as on the ATP tour, this can be argued due to a number of players outside the Top 10 who have reached the Top 10 in previous seasons now within and/or near that age bracket. Nonetheless, it also goes to show the irrelevance of age…

To read the full article please consider supporting my work through my new Book (pending release late 2024) that incorporates a variety of my writing — Dr Berge 

To learn more about our data, predictive analytics and how to optimise your own performance, head on over to AM8 International. To learn more about AM8 International check out our selection of Books and/or options to join Dr B’s Pack to gain exclusive access to the best in the world. Not quite ready? Head on over to Beyond Top 10 Tennis for free access to 100+ episodes directly from Dr Berge of what it really takes to win multiple Grand Slams to securing that Top 10 tennis ranking with new episodes each week. More? Catch up on our Tips over on TikTok, Twitter, Threads or Instagram for quick snippets to apply in your game, today.

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The Power of Song: for Tennis Players

A powerful tool and equally powerful motivator, The Power of Song is often under-utilised and yet the benefits by far outweigh the decision to not integrate song into practice and/or training sessions for its sheer advantages. Not convinced? Give me a minute, or two. Each and every time the radio comes on, or you find your favourite tune of the hour/day/week on Spotify, YouTube to Apple Music and/or all those between, there’s a feeling that takes over. There’s an underlying reason of ‘why’ that song is your favourite today and/or was your favourite song last week. And how that song makes you feel, good and/or bad and the array of emotions in between, can be channelled into whatever it is you’re doing at that given moment as it becomes akin to a memory etched in time as you’re able to recall those ‘feelings’ for those 3-4 minutes if you’re lucky enough for the song to play until its end…

To read the full article please consider supporting my work through my new Book (pending release late 2024) that incorporates a variety of my writing — Dr Berge 

To learn more about our data, predictive analytics and how to optimise your own performance, head on over to AM8 International. To learn more about AM8 International check out our selection of Books and/or options to join Dr B’s Pack to gain exclusive access to the best in the world. Not quite ready? Head on over to Beyond Top 10 Tennis for free access to 100+ episodes directly from Dr Berge of what it really takes to win multiple Grand Slams to securing that Top 10 tennis ranking with new episodes each week. More? Catch up on our Tips over on TikTok, Twitter, Threads or Instagram for quick snippets to apply in your game, today.

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Reading and its Applicability to Sports Performance: Tennis Players

This week’s episode shines exclusive insights on the role of Reading and Performance that it is only fair to add a little more exclusiveness right here for those of you who either are in intrigued for more or those of you who are yet to tune in to Beyond Top 10 Tennis. But this has been a long kept secret over the course of the past now 8 Years as the 10 (non-fiction) texts to date, most of which are included in The Complete Collection, have been published and subsequently made available for all players, coaches to parents ensuring their road ahead towards a Top 10 tennis ranking really is within reach and possible.

But why reading? First and foremost I’m a huge believer in transparency and honesty and so of course there is a pinch of bias here. Nonetheless, there’s also the psychology of human behaviour and of learning — how you learn varies from one individual to the next with equal amounts of variance simply because we are all different and not every individual will learn the same as the next…

To read the full article please consider supporting my work through my new Book (pending release late 2024) that incorporates a variety of my writing — Dr Berge 

To learn more about our data, predictive analytics and how to optimise your own performance, head on over to AM8 International. To learn more about AM8 International check out our selection of Books and/or options to join Dr B’s Pack to gain exclusive access to the best in the world. Not quite ready? Head on over to Beyond Top 10 Tennis for free access to 100+ episodes directly from Dr Berge of what it really takes to win multiple Grand Slams to securing that Top 10 tennis ranking with new episodes each week. More? Catch up on our Tips over on TikTok, Twitter, Threads or Instagram for quick snippets to apply in your game, today.

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Problem Solving and Sport: for Tennis Players

Perhaps one of my absolute favourite topics, although I do confess to having many, the ability to Problem Solve is really in a tennis players DNA as they progress through the ranks whether beginner to advanced towards the top echelon of play. However, to get to this stage this ‘skill‘ needs to be developed and fine-tuned over the course of a tennis players career and this obviously starts at the beginning. Examples of use include everything from what direction the ball is coming and where the players would like it to go and why, to more trivial problems such as racket weight and string tension and why. The key in both examples is behind the why.

Knowing why you want to do something in the first place is fundamental and is applicable across the sporting spectrum…

To read the full article please consider supporting my work through my new Book (pending release late 2024) that incorporates a variety of my writing — Dr Berge 

To learn more about our data, predictive analytics and how to optimise your own performance, head on over to AM8 International. To learn more about AM8 International check out our selection of Books and/or options to join Dr B’s Pack to gain exclusive access to the best in the world. Not quite ready? Head on over to Beyond Top 10 Tennis for free access to 100+ episodes directly from Dr Berge of what it really takes to win multiple Grand Slams to securing that Top 10 tennis ranking with new episodes each week. More? Catch up on our Tips over on TikTok, Twitter, Threads or Instagram for quick snippets to apply in your game, today.