Hatch End Lawn Tennis Club was the venue for a recent talk by tennis psychologist Merlin van Den Braam who has a Masters in sports psychology from Loughborough Universit
y and has worked with the International Tennis Federation, having been a member of the coaching team for the 2012 and 2014 ITF international touring teams travelling to Grade 1 events on the ITF Junior Tour.
Merlin’s talk to a packed clubhouse covered the mental game of tennis and gave members strategies to elevate their levels of commitment, confidence, concentration and control of emotions.