Thursday, June 12, 2025
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Tennis Book Review: "Champion Mindset: Coach Yourself to Win at Life"", by Patrick Mouratoglou
Champion Mindset: Coach Yourself to Win at Life, by Patrick Mouratoglou, (New York, NY: Workman Pub. Co., May 2025)(1st Edition, 224 Pages, Twelve Chapters, with Foreword by Coco Gauff & Acknowledgments)
World-renowned tennis coach Patrick Mouratoglou has authored a wonderful and inspirational book about building a winning mindset in tennis - and life.
Mouratoglou is the highly successful coach of multiple Grand Slam champions, including Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and current Roland-Garros 2025 Champion Coco Gauff, and founder of an elite tennis academy in the south of France.
In his sharp and punchy style, Mouratoglou, often called "The Mentalist" for his ability to sharpen the mental game of players, offers us a simple and clear blueprint to elevate our behavior and results to a higher plane, illustrated with real-life examples.
His motivational program, laid out in his book, is based on ten principles to help focus on and achieve professional and personal goals. And they apply to any athlete and non-athlete alike, in sports or any field of endeavor.
Some of the key components of his methodology: Building confidence by action, living in what he describes as the “progress zone", adopting a learning mindset, taking responsibility for results, managing emotions, and "making" your own motivation.
Poignantly, he speaks from personal experience as someone who suffered low self-esteem and depression himself, in his own youth, to rise to world-class prominence in his profession.
This book is a lucid distillation of Mouratoglou's action plan and mindset to help win on the tennis court, or in any sports arena, office setting, business boardroom, or college class. And worth a careful read.
Monday, June 9, 2025
Tennis Takeaways from the Men’s Singles Championship Match at Roland-Garros 2025
My final takeaways from a thrilling epic Final in the Mens Singles Championship at Roland-Garros 2025.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner played a gripping 5 sets and tiebreak over 5+ hours before a sold-out Paris crowd and global television audience.
2. Closing a match is the hardest thing of all. Sinner had 3 Championship points in the 3rd set, up 5-3, 40-love, and failed to close. Thus, everyone in any match can “choke” or let down. But you can always find a way to re-set.
3. Tennis is the most difficult sport. It does not close itself out. There is no end clock, no programmed timeouts, no substitutes. The winner must affirmatively close out the match to win. Alcaraz and Sinner engaged in a gripping see-saw battle to see who would eventually close out the match.
4. Tennis, like life, is played one point, and one event, at a time - so you always have a chance to win if you just focus on playing the next point or accomplishing the next event. Both players showed us to focus on the next shot, the next stroke, the next in-coming ball.
5. Tennis can be a very streaky game. Players at all levels can go on incredible streaks of unbelievable winners or errors. A locked-in Alcaraz played and won a 5th set tiebreak with an insane streak of mind-blowing winners.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Tennis Lesson of the Day: Execution & Feeling
Here’s the deal. It’s all about thinking on: 1. Your execution on the court (or in life). 2. How you want to feel as you execute on the court (or in life)
Friday, June 6, 2025
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
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