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Short-Term Goals for Tennis Players

The document discusses different types of tennis players in terms of their characteristics and goals. Success-oriented players want to win, beat others, and be champions, and prefer difficult, individual, and short-term goals. Losers-oriented players are afraid of losing, don't want to be compared to others, lack self-confidence, and prefer easy or difficult, vague, team-based, short-term goals. The document then provides recommendations for an effective goal-setting system for players, including setting long-term goals, timeframes, areas to improve, and monitoring progress. It also discusses common problems with goal-setting like having too many goals, not re-evaluating, or making goals too general or immeas

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Short-Term Goals for Tennis Players

The document discusses different types of tennis players in terms of their characteristics and goals. Success-oriented players want to win, beat others, and be champions, and prefer difficult, individual, and short-term goals. Losers-oriented players are afraid of losing, don't want to be compared to others, lack self-confidence, and prefer easy or difficult, vague, team-based, short-term goals. The document then provides recommendations for an effective goal-setting system for players, including setting long-term goals, timeframes, areas to improve, and monitoring progress. It also discusses common problems with goal-setting like having too many goals, not re-evaluating, or making goals too general or immeas

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Type of player Characteristic Goals

Success Oriented  They want to wins, to  Other players are


beat others and to be their points of
champions. reference.
 They like playing  They prefer rather
tennis only when difficult, general,
they win. individual and short-
term goals.
Losers oriented  They are afraid of  Other players are
losing, they don’t their point of
want to be compared reference.
with others.  They prefer easy or
 They don’t like to very difficult, vague,
play tennis because team and short-team
don’t have self- goals.
confidence.

A Good system for a player to set goals could be the following:

 Set the long term goal:


-Where do I want to be?
-Where am I right now?
-What do I need to get there?
 Write a time frame : How long it will realistically take?
 Determine which areas to work on.
 Assess present and future ability levels.
 Devise the action steps needed( mid and short term goals) : set some landmarks to
help the player log the progress towards the goal.
 Monitor and evaluate progress.

8. PROBLEM AND OBSTACLES IN GOAL SETTING (Harwood, 1996; Weinberg, 1998)

 Too many goals at the same time.


 Failing to re-evaluat goals; player is often afraid to re-evaluate the goals.
 Setting unmeasureabl or too general goals.
 Having no goals or ‘do your best’ goals.
 No strategies of archievement strategies when unexpected things occur (e.g.
Injuries)
 Only interested in outcome of result goals.
 Inter-relationships between goals: ‘If I play well, I will win. If I win I will enjoy
playing’.
 Excuses for not doing goal settings:
-‘Too much time’
-‘Too much paperwork’
 Player or coach doesn’t believe in goal-setting because they think:
-They limit the players performance.
-Performance goals make the playes less competitive.
-Outcome goals put too much pressure on players.
-Goals are innate to the players. If player doesn’t have goal already it is a waste of
time on goal setting.
 Players often refer to academic problems (they are not able to archieve academic
and tennis goals goals at the same time) and to lack of confidence.

II. Example of goal setting applied to tennis

1. GOAL SETTING WORKSHEETS (Martin, 1995)


The following worksheets can be used as models when setting goals with players.

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