Meditation is essential for high-performance player development
โMany of the players now are speaking about this, but it's true. Because someone say, are you crazy? You do good yoga. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wanna enjoy this moment. I am with you guys, and I'm happy, and I wanna be concentrate now in this moment and join. It's the same for for the young, and this one cost a lot of the for them.โ
Schiavone and Clijsters maintained intense tour friendships
โI remember exactly, when we were practicing that I was running so much against you and not giving you one meter. Otherwise, you were inside the court. We often say, you have to stay back and run with me. We were enjoying. That's, one thing's very important that today a little bit miss, and, and this very important that could be, a good message to the other players, to enjoy with someone.โ
Elite athletes must balance solitude with social connection
โI think as I got older, I learned to kind of balance, you know, knowing when I want the interaction and when I feel like going out to dinner with the team or but also be able to communicate and say, listen. I just wanna be in in the hotel and just be by myself and just relax. And and I think that just became, you know, as I got older, you know, more of a message that I had to kinda learn to express.โ
Modern coaching requires managing constant digital noise
โThey understand when there is a time to have the phone and play with the social media and connection and, communication. And, but another part, they need input all the time. Organize going there, doing that one. No. Meditation is part of this job. It's part of the life. Take your time. Take a seat, and enjoy a moment that is now.โ
Coaches should prioritize player identity over their own
โThat's another step very important for young young kids and young players. It's important that they have their identity, and we work for them, around them, inside them, not my position inside them head. That's big difference.โ