Sadly today is the last day for going up to Roland Garros and having a knock up. The journalists tournament ends this weekend. My competitive participation ended long ago.
I did not go deep into this tournament. But then I never do. I must improve to have the chance and then it is the luck of the draw.
I have an individual coach called Rafael. He is from Mexico and he, with his heavily accented English, has helped me get the semblance of a backhand.
The problem is I feel my forehand isn't the reliable shot it used to be.
But this is where confidence kicks in. John F Murray, a sports psychologist I spoke to a few years ago for a programme, says in one of his podcasts that confidence comes from practising the motions and then it becomes knowledge.
His line is also that humans are born to be distracted - it helped having this awareness when sabre-toothed tigers were creeping around all those years ago.
Thus focus is not natural but it is something that is needed when on a field of play.
Wild.
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