How Anxiety Affects Tennis Performance
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Anxiety, Arousal, Choking, AvoidanceAbstract
This article describes how anxiety affects all three systems of psychological functioning: how we feel, how we think, and how we behave. The interaction between these three systems is explained in terms of a negative cycle of anxiety, which often inhibits tennis performance, particularly in the competition setting.
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