Well summer seems to have finally arrived in Cornwall, so I've put an article on tennis - the mental part on http://www.sportandme.com.
Here's the beginning of it:
Learning how to play tennis can be either a wonderful or a very frustrating experience. It depends on whether your approach and expectations to the game are realistic and whether your coach and his way of teaching the game of tennis are the best for your starting level of play.
When you start learning how to play tennis you probably don't know much about it. You've seen how good players play and they seem so effortless and the game seems easy. You decide that you want to try it too and enroll in one of the lessons at your local club.
There are 2 main areas when you are still learning how to play tennis:
Technique (footwork, body, arm action)
Tactics
And here are the main mental points for these two areas of your beginning lessons:
1. Be aware - when you learn how to play tennis you are soon overwhelmed with lots of information.
You can read the full article here:
http://www.sportandme.com/docs/sports/tennis/guide/tennis_mental_game.html
