| Maintaining your motivation and developing your tennis | | | | then you can set a goal of identifying the |
| match play. There are a lot of possible causes that | | | | characteristics of the tennis ball, thereby helping you to |
| may be effecting your motivation. It will be helpful for | | | | prepare quickly with your reaction. You can use cue |
| you to understand what motivation means, Motivation | | | | words such as right, high, low, fast or slow to help you |
| is the desire to start and then persist at an activity; in | | | | move into an area so that you have the best possibility |
| your case it is tennis. | | | | chance to hit and return the ball into play. Remember |
| Let us look at a cause that may affect your | | | | to say the appropriate cue word just before the ball |
| motivation, and work out some ideas that you can use | | | | bounces and as your opponent is about to hit the ball. |
| to help resolve it. You may lose belief in yourself | | | | Playing tennis can be great fun and accepting the |
| through your lack of skill improvement and difficulty in | | | | challenge of developing your tennis will not be |
| learning. Go back and ask yourself why you originally | | | | achieved overnight. Your attitude and motivation to |
| wanted to play tennis. Is the answer the same as it | | | | learning from your mistakes on the tennis court will be |
| was when you first started to play tennis? If your | | | | tested to your limits. All the top players make many |
| answer is the same as when you first started playing | | | | mistakes when they play a tennis match. The |
| tennis then maybe you will have to review your setting | | | | difference is though; they know what their mistakes |
| of goals.It could be the goals you are trying to reach | | | | are. They gather feedback on a particularly error and |
| are not realistic for you at this moment. Shall we say | | | | then go about working on the best way to improve |
| that you set a short term goal of understanding that | | | | their overall tennis performance. Will the goals that they |
| you have to make mistakes whilst developing your | | | | set be realistic enough for them to be so motivated |
| tennis? You can then copy the top tennis players and | | | | that they enjoy every second of playing and learning |
| get your own feedback on your mistakes. With your | | | | to be the best they can? Yes of course they will set |
| feedback you can then set new positive goals to | | | | appropriate goals; even so they have to put the right |
| enable you to improve. | | | | degree of motivation and dedication into their further |
| If your feedback is showing that you are finding it very | | | | development. |
| difficult to react to your opponents shot placements, | | | | |