Apps that help tennis coaches and players

1. Apps for Mental Skills
Training in Tennis
Doug Eng EdD PhD CSCS
douglas.w.eng@gmail.com 617 281 8368
PTR International Master Professional, USPTA Master Professional
ITPA Master of Tennis Performance
CSCS, CES, SSE2

2. Mental Skills Training for Performance
• Assessment
• Interventions & Techniques
• Evaluation

3. Assessment
SPQ5 Sport Personality
Based on Big 5 Theory (OCEAN)
Can do quick or long assessment
Can generate profile

4. General Sport Psychology Systems

5. Intervention & Techniques
• Arousal Control
• Breathing/Relaxation
• Attention/Focus/Concentration
• Perception/Vision/Reaction
• Goal-Setting
• Imagery/Visualization
• Mindfulness/Present/Awareness
• Flow/Clutch State/IPS
• Managing Emotions
• Thought Stopping/± Thinking
• Resiliency/Grit/Mindset
• Self-Talk
• Routines/Habits
• Self-Efficacy/Confidence

6. Mindfulness & Awareness
Emotional Control, Goals
Remente
A bit of everything
Mindfulness
Awareness of Emotions
Some Goal-Setting

7. Relaxation and Breathing
Breathe2Relax
Can set you own inhale and exhale
5.5 to 6 breaths/min
inhale < exhale

8. Concentration / Focus
• 32 Hero
• Better than the old paper 1-100
which takes too long so do 20 numbers
• My record is 14.21s (addictive)

9. Vision Training & memory/imagery
Counting Ducks
• Fun! (perfect for u12)
• Gets harder at advanced levels

10. Vision Training & Reaction
Optics Trainer
• Hand-Eye Coordination
• Dynamic Acuity (tracking)
• Eye Movement (tracking)
• Peripheral Vision

11. Reaction
Reaction Speed
Old-fashion and simple
Reaction Time

12. Conclusions
Keep your students busy!!
Not enough on Assessment
Not enough on Tennis-Specific Training
Other apps

13. Thank you!

14. Concentr
• 32 Hero – Best concentration grid
• Optics Trainer (some really good exercises)
• Reaction Speed – Test (good simple reaction red to green)
• Breathe2Relax (is the best breathing app IMO). Change the inhale and exhale times to maybe 4 sec inhale
and 6.5 sec exhale. Breath in through the nose, out through the mouth. “Smell the roses, blow out the
candles.”
• Remente - mindfulness and journal – use the journal and log your daily emotions (has a list of emotions)
SPQ5 Sport Personality
• Counting Ducks (lots of fun and can get very challenging)
• Rapid Shot (search “Reaction Time Trainer”)
• Speed Perception – tricky, sometimes hard to tell differences)
• uHIT– Baseball or softball