Caroline Wozniacki, currently ranked 6th on the WTA, has recently retired against Anne Kremer from Luxembourg (ranked 323)  when leading 7-5, 5-0.

Now before you even read further, you immediately see that this is a very strange score to retire at.

Here’s what happened: Caroline has injured herself during the match and the pain in her hamstring was getting worse and worse.

While Caroline felt that she could have finished the match against Anne Kremer, she also felt that she wouldn’t be able to play in the next round as the danger of more severe injury would be much greater.

Caroline Wozniacki and her father / Photo by AP

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Hi Tomaz,

Got your Mental Manual yesterday, I’m reading through it and it looks great! I thought I’d take the opportunity to ask you a question.

First, a little background: I’m coaching a 10 year old boy who needs help in the mental side of tennis.

When playing a match, he’ll be all smiles when winning but if he starts losing he intentionally starts “bashing” the ball and becomes extremely erratic.

His technique breaks down and everything goes downhill quickly.The boy has good technique on his shots and serve, but is naturally a bit erratic. When he plays a solid junior, the above negative situation arises.

I coach the boy for 1 hour once a week, and he shares the lesson with his sister.

My question is:  What is your advice on how I go about incorporating some of the info from the manual into the context of the weekly lesson?

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