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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tennis and other racquet sports like squash are brutally stressful too. DS plays both sports recreationally but I’ve been amazed to see many of the more competitive junior players  have individual mental coaches that help them out. These are 11/12 year old kids!! [/quote]

This is a different kind of stress.   This is tiger parent stress. [/quote]

Not all tennis stress is caused by tiger parents. Also I think you are interpreting some junior players having mental coaches as a sign of tiger parenting (omg you hired a "mental coach" for your junior tennis player) but many players would tell you that it is an act of kindness and support. When Iga Swiatek won Wimbledon, her therapist attended the winners ball with her afterward and Iga credited her as an important part of her success. The loser in that match, Amanda Anisimova, recently took 18 months off tennis at a key point in her career entirely for mental health reasons. Naomi Osaka has been openly berating herself in press conferences this year after tough losses, because she's so unhappy with where she is at as she continues to try and get to the level she was playing at before maternity leave. And several male players have spoken out this year about the mental challenges of the sport, both on the court and within the expectations of the tour, where constant travel, the responsibility for your team of coaches and trainers, and the increasing expectations of the fans and the press in terms of accessibility has created a sort of mental health crisis in the sport.

In that context, if I had a child who was a highly competitive junior player, I'd absolutely make sure they had some kind of mental health support, because I'd be worried about the mental wear and tear building up and becoming a bigger problem, the same way you worry about a young athlete playing through pain or injuries or ignoring a technique issue that could create physical problems.[/quote]

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