Tennis drills here will improve your mental abilities – concentration, perseverance, emotion control and so on.<br />They have other benefits too which you'll discover when you start practicing them, but their main point is learning to play at your best despite pressure.<br /><br />A tennis player is most efficient and capable of good results when he is in the zone state. That's when his mind is empty. If a player is thinking about anything during ball exchange, he disturbs his concentration and consequently makes errors.<br /><br />Especially damaging are thoughts about negative outcome just before the point. The most common is thinking about double faulting just before the serve. You can almost predict that a double fault will follow.<br /><br />One of the main purposes of these drills is to show the player how to find this zone state and how much better he performs in that state. And that is actually the only thing besides effort that a player can control.<br /><br />Many of these tennis drills will put the player under pressure and then he will have to perform a task under these circumstances. Sometimes a player competes against himself and sometimes against a partner.<br /><br />In any case, if a player wants to be successful in a real match, then he needs to practice his skills with various tennis drills and develop mental toughness through time. A player cannot become mentally tough by reading books or by just going to a sports psychologist.<br />Keywords: mental,training,tennis<br />Prof Dr.Mazin Hadi kzar<br />Al-Mustaqbal University College<br />[email protected]