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Podcast: The Functional Tennis Podcast
Episode: Developing an elite mindset & the dreaded yips with Dr. Amanda Jane Napier Owens
Description: This week on the podcast, I meet Amanda Jane Napier Owens - a leading sports and performance psychologist.In our conversation, we talk about how early we should introduce pressure into the training of tennis juniors, and how we go about doing this. I ask Amanda how to get players fired up before a big game and if this really improves performance.Dr. Owens gives some really fascinating insight into why anger isn’t effective in tennis, and we also discuss the science behind yips - and how players can stop it from happening to th...