Tennis
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Amazing how Medvedev never blinked to match point then he baulked twice and reset because he saw Joker facing him. The mental pressure is so interesting to watch as his service composure crumbled. Well done Medvedev.
Yeah - I love watching that stuff.
You've worked all your life to get to the point where you need one more point to validate it all - and somehow you've got to try to trick yourself that it's just another point.
Lots of people can't do it. Simon Hughes wrote a book called "A lot of hard yakka" quite a few years ago, about his county cricket career. He was a fast medium bowler - but as his career went on he went from being a blithe kid on the fringes of England selection - to mentally scarred and eventually with a dose of the yips - so bad that when he was running into bowl he was pretty much praying that he'd be able to hit the pitch, let alone bowl something decent.
Whisper it quietly but BB's goal-kicking is looking a bit yippish to me right now.
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Laver, true gent.
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@chris-b there was a golfer, pretty sure Australian, who did the same thing. Was flying, got the yips, and barely ever played again. And i think they started when he was chipping in his hallway and dinked a couple, and just grew from there.
The mental side of all elite sport, but most especially these individual sports is just incredible.
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@mariner4life said in Tennis:
@chris-b there was a golfer, pretty sure Australian, who did the same thing. Was flying, got the yips, and barely ever played again. And i think they started when he was chipping in his hallway and dinked a couple, and just grew from there.
The mental side of all elite sport, but most especially these individual sports is just incredible.
I know who you're talking about and his name escapes me. He had a mate of the tour form Aussie with a similar name.
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@mariner4life Doubtless Ian Baker-Finch.
Yeah - I suffer "almost intense pressure"
playing shit golf when I occasionally get in the position to beat friends who are slightly better than me. I have largely overcome it by realizing that it matters not a fuck. I couldn't play to win a major - fucking hopeless.I think it's why the ABs have somewhat underperformed at the Rugby World Cup - because a skill-based game is more likely to turn to shit under pressure than a muscle game.
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Are you guys thinking of Ian Baker-Finch?
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@catogrande I believe his first name is Doubtless. But I'm only reading the post directly above yours...
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@mariner4life said in Tennis:
The mental side of all elite sport, but most especially these individual sports is just incredible.
Mark Richardson right - got the spinning yips and reinvented as a batsman?
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@mariner4life Doubtless Ian Baker-Finch.
Yeah - I suffer "almost intense pressure"
playing shit golf when I occasionally get in the position to beat friends who are slightly better than me. I have largely overcome it by realizing that it matters not a fuck. I couldn't play to win a major - fucking hopeless.I think it's why the ABs have somewhat underperformed at the Rugby World Cup - because a skill-based game is more likely to turn to shit under pressure than a muscle game.
That's the one but that isn't the one I was thinking of.
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@catogrande I believe his first name is Doubtless. But I'm only reading the post directly above yours...
Fuck. Missed that.
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@rancid-schnitzel typical patriarchy, thats the only reason she would retire
seriously though, lots of players have been preggers and just taken that time off rather than full on retirement
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@rancid-schnitzel She's only 25 and not yet married, so I doubt it. The thought occurred to me though. You'd say that in the interview though, wouldn't you?
