Thank you Sven. Nice mental tips. I cannot maintain a good and positive winning streak. When I feel myself improved with offensive shots such as vibora or smash in a week, often I fall in a bad mistakes with lobs or forehands the days after. Sometimes I loose the basics shots. To play my cards… I will remember this. Thank you
Yes. Sometimes your shots get better, so you expect more of yourself. If your vibora was amazing today if might not be next week. Try to adjust and play with the cards you have today
I suffer from "good guy syndrome". If I feel compassion for the other team, I start playing easy balls and make mistakes. I have lost against worse players because of this. Gaining a 3-0 lead, then feeling bad about it and messing it up.
Hi Sved, I will praise you for your very honest advice. I can relate to nearly all the tips and situations that you have described and given with such good humor that I can smile at my own mistakes. I promise to do my best the next time on the court. all the best from the oldish man Tim ( squash player of 40 years)
Today it is Monday morning and I am playing in one hour. However things go, I just remind myself that being retired in Spain and playing Padel on a Monday is 99% better than every day of my 40 years working life. Vamos
Great tips! I recently started moving and staying active exactly like you said and that has helped me keep my head in the game and staying relaxed. I have an issue with golden points though. For some reason I seem to be losing the vast majority of those situations for some reason. It has to be a mental issue but I'm not a 100% sure on how to tackle that. Any tips for those situations?
Well.. thats a very good question. And it can have many answers. I sometimes try to do too much when playing the golden point, or I play too safe. Sometimes I try to change and break my own pattern to surprise and that doesn’t work for me. But for some reason I do it anyway. Its better to construct a plan for the golden point with your partner, and stick to it no matter what
You can either play to win or play to not lose, there is no best choice persé. Do what feels most to your nature and stick to it, the doubting/analysing will only do you worse :) Good luck
My partner is using a racquet that he is not talented enough to use (Babolat Technical Viper 2022) and we are losing so badly recently. I am finding it hard to keep my emotions in check when he puts the ball in the net from the easiest of serves. Even Le Bron changed the way that racquet was designed for 2023 because its so shit. Spoken to him but he says "I like my racquet". Might be time to change partners lol - or have you got any better advice? Tx
Well.. maybe. Its not the best racket in the world I agree. But If he is the one making the most mistakes it might not be the best choice to play with him
For me if I lose against a seemingly 'worse' player, it's always either a padel player without good technique but having played years and years longer than me or a high level tennis player who can overcome any smart/technical perfect play with sheer power and touch (yes, long time padel players of playtomic level 3-4, you will lose against that KNLTB tennis rating 2 player, playing his 3rd padel match hehe) . I feel that in essence, they are actually better players, otherwise I would have won. 9th fix: don't play with a partner who is worse than your 2 opponents because they will fridge you and you may very well lose ;-)
Hi, do you have any tips or advice on making sure you are 100% ready at the start of the game? That you are focussed, a bit pumped, to make sure you are ready to give everything you have in the game? We notice that when we go in with the mentality "don't make any mistakes", that we actually play very conservative and even very passive, slow. Also during warmup, we experience that we are not active enough, maybe not 100% concentrated. And we bring this into our game, leading to being 'too late', not moving enough, ... and loosing the game Thanks,
Well.. you are never 100% ready: you will always spin in and out of focus. Its just that you need to be aware when you are off focus. The video about the 16 second cure will help you a lot I think
Last week, match against a weaker couple. First set: we win 6-1 My mate tells me: "ok, this is a easy one. now we can play more on the strong player, in order to train our shots" Second set lost 2-6 Third set lost 3-6
