#035 Off the Pitch with Active: Interview with Allon Khakshouri, Mental game of Tennis

Off the Pitch with Active

Despite the odds being stacked against Allon, he was determined to change his fate. From a struggling kid, with various disabilities, to fulfilling a childhood dream and managing some of the world’s best tennis players, Allon put his career success down to developing the mental toughness and passion he saw from tennis players, from a young age.

He also realized that it is mental toughness that separates the world’s best players from everyone else and it allows them to pursue ambitious goals whilst keeping their mental sanity in place.

Allon managed three world #1 tennis players, including Novak Djokovic. He organized his own professional ATP tennis events in three countries that attracted the likes of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray.

He has been a Member of the ATP Council and have witnessed firsthand the evolution of professional tennis over the last ten years.

Overview:

3:20 Introduction

6:15 Metal Toughness eBook and Allon’s journey when his father starting his first World class tennis tournament.

8:30 Allon was asked to become a manager for his first tennis player

9:37 Winner of junior grand slam never made in senior pro, we discuss why?

10:55 Novak Djokovics never won a Junior grand slam event, what was he like as a teenager?

17:20 What is mental toughness and how do you coach it?

23:20 Carol Dweck study about praise

26:35 Mental toughness training

28:10 Internalizing beliefs

36:45 Book “So good that they can’t ignore you”

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