Mental Performance Training for
Tennis Players
Mental performance coaching for tennis players looking to play freely, trust their swing, recover from mistakes, and compete with confidence.
Your technical skills may not be the problem…
& the solution may not be continuing to fine tune your physical skills. What if the solution is fine tuning your mental skills?
Tennis gives you something many sports don't. And that’s a time to think.
Between every point, there's an opportunity to replay the last mistake, worry about the next one, or get caught up in the score. One bad point can quickly turn into several if your mind doesn't recover from it.
While developing your physical game is essential, your ability to manage your thoughts, emotions, and focus often determines how consistently you perform. Learning to stay present, trust your preparation, and respond well to adversity is the difference that turns good tennis players into great ones.
You may struggle with…
✓ Overthinking UTR ratings or your opponent before you go into matches
✓ Struggling to let go of lost points
✓ Playing great in practice but not matches or tournaments
✓ Losing confidence after one mistake
✓ Obsessing over the score
✓ Feeling pressure on the first serve
✓ Fear of messing up
✓ Emotional reactions that affect the next point
✓ Uncertainty with how to train your mental game
These are incredibly common challenges. AND, they’re trainable.
Mental performance is a skill that can be built,
not just a mindset.
How mental performance training helps
Through mental performance training, we’ll learn how to:
✓ Reset after bad or lost points
✓ Stay focused one point at a time
✓ Build lasting confidence
✓ Play strategically instead of conservatively
✓ Separate your identity from your game
✓ Trust your preparation
✓ Create a consistent pre-serve or pre-tournament routine
✓ Handle match pressure
Skills we build
We help athletes develop:
✓ Confidence
✓ Reset routines
✓ Self-talk
✓ Focus cues
✓ Mindfulness
✓ Breathing techniques
✓ Imagery
✓ Process-focused thinking
✓ Pre-performance routines
✓ Emotional regulation
FAQs
What do sessions look like?
Every athlete is different, so sessions are tailored to your goals and challenges. Together, we’ll come up with a game plan for our work together and individualize practical mental skills you can use during practices and competitions.
Logistically, our initial intake session is 50-minutes and follow-ups are 40-minutes. You can schedule session by session, or we do monthly options with 4, 2, or 1 session per month.
Why do individual sport athletes benefit from mental performance training?
Individual sports place a unique mental load on athletes.
There are no teammates to hide behind, every performance feels personal, mistakes can feel like they define you, and success or failure often feels entirely on your shoulders.
Mental performance training helps athletes learn how to compete with confidence, resilience, and trust in themselves, regardless of the outcome.
How do I get started?
Contact us or schedule a call to get connected with Kiley to hop on a phone to start discussing your game plan!
Where do I need to be located to work with you?
All sessions take place via Zoom. If you are in the Fort Collins or Denver areas, contact us to talk about in person options.
Meet Kiley, CMPC
Kiley Smith is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant (CMPC) with a Master's degree in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology who specializes in helping individual sport athletes perform with greater confidence, consistency, and enjoyment. As a lifelong athlete herself with experience in tennis, running, golf, and other individual sports, she understands the unique mental demands that come with competing when all eyes are on you. Kiley works with individual sport athletes to develop practical mental skills that help them manage pressure, overcome setbacks, trust their preparation, and compete with confidence so they can perform at their best. She has worked with athletes across a variety of individual sports, including golf, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, dance, running, archery and more.