One way to
help you learn to deal with match pressure in tennis is
to make every point in practice important. Here are a
couple of ideas to help you work on your mental focus in
practice.
Play a set or a whole match
with a friend, starting each game at 30-30 and use
no ad scoring. This helps you treat every point as a
big point.
If you
have trouble closing out games, try a game called
Back to Love...Whenever you have a game point that
you don't convert, your score goes back to love. So
if you're ahead 40-30 and lose the next point, the
score becomes 0-40.
