Enjoyment: Fresh clues for coaches
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https://doi.org/10.52383/itfcoaching.v24i68.176Keywords:
Enjoyment, fun, coachAbstract
“I was never pushed, mum didn’t know anything about tennis so when I went off to a tournament she’d say ‘Bye, have a lovely day’, and when I came back she’d say ‘Hi, did you have a lovely day?’ Having fun was the one thing that helped me most (to be a champion).” (Evonne Goolagong Cawley). This paper reviews Csikszentmihalyi’s conceptualisation of enjoyment as a process that occurs when high challenges and skills are matched. Implications for coaches are explored together with the benefits that can arise when tennis is fun.
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