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2 Mental Toughness Lessons From the Australian Open…What To Do and What Not To Do
1.) What To Do: Players should fight hardest when their opponent is trying to finish them off, because it’s more likely that they’ll play poorly at this time
It was a Major tournament master and a potential future star that taught us this huge competitive lesson to begin…
While so often players tap out and fold meekly when it gets time for their opponents to serve for the match (or close to it) champion veteran Stan Wawrinka and 17 year-old newcomer Alex De Minaur got tough at the right time and reaped the rewards.
For Wawrinka, down 4-3 40-15 in the 5thagainst a rampant Martin Klizan, the reward was a 6-4 in the 5thvictory. And his post match quote summed up the importance of fighting till the end when not playing your best, “Wasn't my best tennis today, but was fighting, trying to stay in the game, fighting a lot.”
For De Minaur, looking gone at 2 sets to 1 and 5-2 down in the 4th, he seemed to harness memories of Lleyton Hewitt at the...