Sandy Farquharson shares a 10-minute pre-match routine to fix inconsistent play. Write down answers to quick questions about your opponent, partner, and match goals in a journal. Mental clarity from this simple prep keeps your performance steady across sets.
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Players really struggle with consistent performance on court. They either start slow, or sometimes they start fast and they play really well, but then they can't understand why the next set their level dips, and then the next day they play a completely different way. So in this video, I'm going to take you through a 10-minute pre-match or pre-training routine that is going to really guarantee that you will have a consistently good performance. The most important part of the pre-training or pre-match routine is getting clarity, and we developed this training and match journal, which you can actually find on Amazon, but if you're using your own journal, that would work equally well. It's just asking yourself a few questions. So if you've got a match, we've got a match section where you go to the match section and there are some pre-match questions, your opponents, your partner, the tournament, some tactics you want to implement, some goals for the match, and just get real clarity. Spend 1 to 2 minutes going through this exercise so that when you step on the court,