The curse of five-setter
Published: 30 Apr 2006 - 04:16 by vitty
Updated: 24 Sep 2008 - 12:39
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Hi squashers,
I´d played 4 "five-setters" recently and I managed to win only one of them. Seems it´s something in my mind.In two cases I was leading 2-0, then lost 2 sets and then to tiebreaker which ended 9-10 for me. (One of the tiebreaker ended in a horrible way - I pushed my opponent into back corner with good rail, he had to play boast, I moved forward to drop but his boast ended in the perfect nick - any bounce at all. I think I don´t have to say how frustrating it was - you are playing, running, chasing for 70min and it ends just like this - ). But back to the topic - do you think that winning five-setters or tiebreakers in general is a special skill ? Can it be practised somehow ? Whenever I play crucial points I get nervous and therefore I lose the point often. Maybe some kind of mental training will help ?
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From rippa rit - 30 Apr 2006 - 13:12 - Updated: 30 Apr 2006 - 13:26
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Here is the Match Preparation link which might also help.
I think I have written an article about this but anyway briefly here is my story.
At my first Aust Champs I played the first 3 matches and was up 2 games to nill every time and lost in 5.
Yes, very frustrating. Nobody really clicked on what was going on, except all of a sudden my head flashed into gear "you are changing your game when up 2 games, and taking the pressure off the opponent, by trying not to make any mistakes, thus letting them in". So if that makes sense to you try to handle it like this:
Here is another instance of being down 2 Nil
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