One of the reason’s I like tennis is it can tell you what you’re feeling, who you are, and what pressure you’re not immune to. Your tennis game is like a personal barometer.

There are the days when your game…..well…..it sucks. For reasons unknown you can’t find the court. You wonder why you ever started playing this stupid game.

But if you’ve been reading this site, or books like Timothy Gallwey’s “Inner Tennis”, you have probably accepted the difficult fact that sometimes you can’t get away with blaming your racket, the balls, the weather, or anything external to yourself.

Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and look inside at those shadows in the closet that changed the way you were thinking or feeling without you even noticing it.

But now you have to notice it, because there it is. The easy mid-court ball you put wide. The second serve that just won’t go in. The easy volleys that hit the fence or the net.

Time to take a look inside and see what’s going on there. Something is. And the sooner you face up to it and deal with it head on, the sooner you’ll get back to playing your tennis.