In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the Resonance Performance Model as a way for tennis players to increase self-awareness and improve aspects of their game. This episode touched on various themes from the book The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey and various past episodes of the podcast. Video about Inner Game of Golf from Tim Gallwey: https://youtu.be/fdTmyhdfvZ0 Past episodes of the Tennis IQ Podcast referenced in this episode: Ep. 14 - Sean Brawley And The Inner Game Ep. 21 - Jeff Gre...
Jan 22, 2023•40 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the value of making good mistakes. The co-hosts reviewed what they mean by good mistakes and how they differ from bad mistakes, and talked about how tennis players should be accepting of mistakes and play to win rather than try to avoid missing and making mistakes. Furthermore, they considered how committing to a game plan and playing style leads to the necessary experience of making good mistakes in certain moments, which will lead to further learning and...
Jan 14, 2023•47 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss why tennis players should prioritize developing good character and make it an explicit goal of their training. Results such as winning, rankings, and ratings are often prioritized rather than character and skill development which can lead tennis players to cut corners and exhibit negative character traits and poor sporting behavior. By prioritizing positive character traits, tennis players give themselves a better chance to be trusted by their peers, coach...
Jan 05, 2023•43 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast Widely regarded as one of the worlds preeminent tennis coaches and experts in the field of coaching education, Nick Saviano emphasizes the importance of approaching the game with joyous passion and a commitment to relentless growth. Nick has 46 years of world-class tennis experiencenine years playing on the ATP tour, followed by 37 years as a high-performance coach. Prior to this, he was a top US junior player, and an All-American and member of the NCAA Championship Team at Stanford University. ...
Dec 27, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the psychology of doubles. This topic was addressed in one of the first episodes of the podcast, episode 9, which focused mostly on communication patterns and teamwork in doubles. This episode focuses more on the mental barriers that doubles players face, such as not disappointing their partner, as well as how doubles players can be the best partner that they can be. Tennis IQ Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/tennisiqpodcast/membership To learn more a...
Dec 19, 2022•48 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the dangers of being judgmental. Tennis players have the tendency to be judgmental about a number of different things when they are playing including of themselves and their level, their opponents level and playing style, weather conditions, missed shots, etc. The co-hosts introduced strategies that tennis players can utilize to help move past judgmental thoughts and self-talk including journaling about performances, embracing all situations with curiosity...
Dec 09, 2022•45 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss how tennis players can prioritize learning and developing their game instead of just focusing on results. The co-hosts talked about how tennis players can take pressure off of themselves by focusing on being the best player they can be rather than focusing too much on results such as rankings, UTR ratings, etc. Additionally, they discussed how tennis players can analyze their matches in order to learn from wins and losses in a systematic way by reflecting ...
Dec 01, 2022•50 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss tennis as a fighting sport and as a combat sport. This conversation was inspired by The Fighters Mind, a book by Sam Sheridan that outlines the mental demands of various combat sport athletes. The co-hosts outline how tennis is a battle between two (or four in doubles) people with a similar goal of winning a match and how they must utilize fighting/combat skills and mental strength to achieve their goals and be successful. Various themes are discussed incl...
Nov 24, 2022•53 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Brian Teacher is a former top professional tennis player and coach as well as the founder of the Full Court Tennis app. As a player, Brian won the 1980 Australian Open and had career highs of #7 in the world for singles and #5 in the world for doubles. He has coached top players including Andre Agassi, Greg Rusedski, Daniel Nestor and Max Mirnyi. In this conversation we discuss Brians playing and coaching background, as well as the Full Court Tennis app. The Full Court Tennis app is available on...
Nov 14, 2022•51 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss how tennis players can utilize visualization as part of their overall training. Previously, in episode 18, the co-hosts reviewed on-court methods of using visualization, so in this episode the focus was on how visualization can be trained and utilized off-court by tennis players of all levels. Various strategies were discussed to build visualization skills including visualization with a tennis ball, writing out visualization scripts of match situations you...
Nov 06, 2022•49 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Max Newlon is the President of BrainCo USA. Max spent several years working in top hospitals conducting research on the impact of neuro-technology and mind-body approaches to wellbeing and performance. After graduating from Harvard Graduate School of Education, he joined BrainCo as a research scientist in 2016. Now he leads the US company towards its vision of unlocking human potential with brain-computer interface technology. Discount code for Tennis IQ Listeners: https://focuscalm.com/di...
Oct 29, 2022•59 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss how tennis players can focus more on who they are becoming as a way to take pressure off of themselves. The co-hosts discuss moments when tennis players focus on who they were in the past (typically when coming back from injuries and slumps) as well as situations where tennis players tend to focus on who they are at the moment instead of focusing on the type of player that theyre trying to become. Strategies to reduce pressure were discussed including not ...
Oct 22, 2022•41 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss whether club players and juniors should emulate professional tennis players. Topics discussed include how to learn from watching pros play on television, developing better decision making in points, and learning from how pros handle their time between points. (Mentioned in the episode) - Patrick Mouratoglou recent video on the mental game - https://youtu.be/haGv3heQ0kU Tennis IQ Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/tennisiqpodcast/membership To learn more...
Oct 14, 2022•37 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss self-compassion. Self-compassion is a process that tennis players can/should embrace during matches, practices, and throughout their tennis development. Topics discussed in this episode include: awareness/mindfulness, maintaining perspective during the countless ups and downs that tennis players face throughout their careers, and the inevitability of having to deal with missed shots and mistakes during matches. Resources and links mentioned in this episode...
Oct 07, 2022•52 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Mylne Steinhardt is a NASM & PPSC certified health coach who specializes in helping high-school and college tennis players make the cut by rounding out their off court training protocols - primarily through nutrition and strength training. The struggles that Mylne faced as a D2 college athlete have led her to find a passion in helping others work through or even avoid these same problems that keep athletes from reaching their full potential, not only on the court but in all aspects of life. ...
Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the careers of Serena Williams and Roger Federer. Both players have recently announced their retirements from the sport and they are both consistently ranked among the greatest tennis players of all time. The co-hosts reflect on their legacies, the mental qualities that led to their greatness, and certain matches in their careers when they exemplified mental toughness, resilience, and perseverance. To learn more about Josh and Brian's backgrounds and sport...
Sep 22, 2022•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the 2022 US Open. Iga witek defeated Ons Jabeur 6-2, 7-6(5) to win the women's singles championship while Carlos Alcaraz defeated Casper Ruud 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(1), 6-3 to win the men's singles championship. The co-hosts reviewed various sport psychology themes and talked about how the finalists and champions exhibited certain mental qualities that helped them achieve success in the 2022 US Open. Iga witek post-final press conference transcript: http://www.asap...
Sep 14, 2022•51 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast For this milestone episode, Brian and Josh answered various questions from listeners of the podcast and shared feedback from listeners in different parts of the world and tennis community. Additionally, they reflected on the origins of the Tennis IQ Podcast, discussed what it means to reach the 100th episode of the podcast, and talked about how athletes can move on and continue to grow after reaching and celebrating their milestones. Lastly, they introduced a program where listeners can help to ...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Natalie Durand-Bush is a sport psychology professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. She specializes in mental skills training and assessment, mental health, and coaching psychology. As a Mental Performance Consultant for the past 27 years, Natalie has helped athletes and coaches of all ages, sports, and levels achieve their performance and well-being goals. A relentless advocate for the field of sport psychology, she has co-founded and chaired the Canadian Sport ...
Sep 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss taking a strengths-based approach to tennis. This episode was inspired by a paper titled The Strengths-Based Performance Profile (SBPP): A Method for Strengths-Spotting and Application in Single-Session Consultations with Athletes (link below). The co-hosts review the importance of having a clear understanding of ones strengths and weaknesses as a starting point for adopting this perspective. Additionally, they discuss how tennis players can base their gam...
Sep 01, 2022•45 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Universal Tennis Rating, more commonly known as UTR, has become ubiquitous in tennis over the last several years, and it has been especially prominent in the world of college tennis. In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss how aspiring college tennis players can handle UTR and the pressures that come along with it. The co-hosts review the challenges of expectations and pressure that can increase when tennis players are overly focused on results including rankings and UTR ratings. They also consi...
Aug 23, 2022•53 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh reflect on a quote by golf legend Jack Nicklaus: The worse youre performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is playing badly well. All the true greats have been masters at it. The co-hosts discuss how this applies to all tennis players who will inevitably, at some point or another, have days when they are playing badly. Utilizing mental skills on the days when tennis players arent playing well is often...
Aug 14, 2022•40 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Brian and Josh discuss how to handle playing an injured opponent. The co-hosts review various mental challenges related to playing an injured opponent including how to handle injury time-outs, how opponent injuries can cause a loss of rhythm, and how to handle distractions that injuries can present. Additionally, they consider how utilizing mental skills like self-talk, visualization, breathing techniques, and routines can give tennis players a better chance to handle the situati...
Aug 06, 2022•40 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss how to integrate mental skills into practice. A number of strategies are covered that players and coaches can utilize in order to practice in a deliberate way and best prepare for matches. The co-hosts reviewed specific games and drills that can be used to enhance mental skills such as focus, hitting targets on the court, and building in-between point routines. Additionally, they discussed the type of mindset that is needed in order to get the most out of ...
Jul 29, 2022•38 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Howard Bryant is an award winning author and journalist who has been a senior writer for ESPN since 2007. Although he writes about a number of sports and topics within sport, he is an astute observer of tennis and he always brings a unique perspective with his analysis of matches and issues within the game. Howard also plays tennis and therefore has first-hand knowledge of how difficult the sport is mentally. As a professional observer of sport, he is uniquely qualified to discuss the mental and...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. Elena Rybakina defeated Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 to win the women's singles championship while Novak Djokovic defeated Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(3) to win the men's singles championship. The co-hosts reviewed various sport psychology themes and talked about how the finalists and champions exhibited certain mental qualities that helped them achieve success in the 2022 Wimbledon Championships. Ons...
Jul 12, 2022•54 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same" This quote appears above the door leading to Wimbledon's Centre Court and it is a challenge to all players who step on to that most famous court. In this episode, Josh and Brian discuss the excerpt from Rudyard Kipling's poem 'If-' and relate it to the difficulties players encounter during a tennis match. Additionally, they relate this quote to one from Theodore Roosevelt's 'The Man in the Arena' speech. Both...
Jul 09, 2022•44 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss the concept of mini-wins and mini-celebrations. Tennis players can look to celebrate controllable sources of mini-wins that they successfully complete in practice and matches. These could include performing a stroke correctly during practice when they are trying to make a technical adjustment, celebrating successfully completing their pre-match routine, and celebrating going through the in-between point routine in matches. Mini-wins have positive benefits ...
Jul 04, 2022•42 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh respond to a listener question about playing in the extreme heat. Topics discussed include the importance of preparation, the need to control the controllables, and how understanding your body and limits prior to a match gives you a better chance to perform at a high level. Additionally, they review the importance of maintaining perspective and connecting to a deeper purpose of improvement and performance excellence in order to embrace extreme weather conditions a...
Jun 24, 2022•43 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Brian and Josh discuss self-talk strategies to handle Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs). Certain strategies mentioned were inspired from the book Chatter by Ethan Kross including distancing from the problem (seeing it from an outsiders perspective), journaling, and using ones own voice when communicating through self-talk. Additionally, the co-hosts reviewed the importance of developing ones personal philosophy and building character when it comes to developing effective self-t...
Jun 16, 2022•40 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast 
