The book Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player by Simon Ramo offers a helpful mental model: a distinction between “loser’s games” and “winner’s games.”

• Loser’s games = focusing on minimizing mistakes.


• Winner’s games = focusing on maximizing success.

When learning tennis, amateurs play a loser’s game, meaning the majority of points come f... See more

It was also interesting, to me at least, to note the body language and between point box-bickering that consumes much of a Musetti and Shapovalov between-point routine. Both men appear tormented, and waste so much energy and attention on things that are simply out of their control. The difference between these two, versus Alcaraz and Sinner, or eve... See more