It pays in the end. Time
spent in learning where to play on a tennis court is well
expended, since it returns to you in the form of matches won,
breath saved, and energy conserved.
It is seldom you need cover more than two-thirds of a tennis
court, so why worry about the unnecessary portions of it?
PART II: THE LAWS OF TENNIS PSYCHOLOGY
CHAPTER VI. GENERAL TENNIS PSYCHOLOGY
Tennis psychology is nothing more than understanding the workings
of your opponent's mind, and gauging the effect of your own game
on his mental viewpoint, and understanding the mental effects
resulting from the various external causes on your own mind. You
cannot be a successful psychologist of others without first
understanding your own mental processes, you must study the
effect on yourself of the same happening under different
circumstances. You react differently in different moods and under
different conditions. You must realize the effect on your game of
the resulting irritation, pleasure, confusion, or whatever form
your reaction takes. Does it increase your efficiency? If so,
strive for it, but never give it to your opponent.
Does it deprive you of concentration? If so, either remove the
cause, or if that is not possible strive to ignore it.
Once you have judged accurately your own reaction to conditions,
study your opponents, to decide their temperaments. Like
temperaments react similarly, and you may judge men of your own
type by yourself.
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