Everybody Gets Nervous!

Tennis is more than technical, physical, and strategic skill. Players at every level, including the world’s best, experience nerves, frustration, self-doubt, and pressure. The difference isn’t that successful players avoid these emotions, but that they’ve learned how to manage them and compete effectively despite them. How you respond to mistakes, regain your composure, and prepare for the next point can make the difference between playing with confidence and allowing frustration or uncertainty to take control.

The Mental Advantage is an interactive online course for tennis players ages 13 and older, teaching practical mental routines to improve focus, composure, resilience, and confidence during competition.

The course focuses on mastering two critical periods of a tennis match: the time between points and during changeovers. Players learn how to recover from mistakes, manage emotions, regain focus, and prepare mentally and strategically for what comes next. The course includes a special Bonus Module, Your Inner Voice — Become Your Own Best Coach, teaches players how to recognize negative self-talk and replace it with constructive, confidence-building thoughts.

Why Take The Mental Advantage?

Having a clear strategy for the time between points and during changeovers can be a game changer for players at every level. Through short, interactive lessons, realistic match scenarios, and on-court exercises, you’ll learn to recover from mistakes, manage pressure, make smarter tactical decisions, and approach each point and changeover with greater confidence and purpose.

Built on Proven Mental Training Principles

The Mental Advantage draws on the pioneering work of renowned sports psychologist Dr. Jim Loehr, whose 16-Second Cure helped shape the mental training strategies used by world-class tennis players.

Course creator Everett Teague, an RSPA Elite-Rated Tennis Professional, had the opportunity to train directly with renowned sports psychologist Dr. Jim Loehr and biomechanics expert Dr. Jack Groppel at a Loehr-Groppel Enterprises (LGE) workshop in Saddlebrook, Florida. That experience profoundly influenced his coaching philosophy and continues to shape his approach to mental performance, player development, and helping athletes compete with greater confidence and composure.

Building on these established, research-informed principles, The Mental Advantage translates key concepts into simple, practical routines that today’s tennis players can learn, practice, and apply during competition.