Developing Your Grip
Monica Seles won the French Open at the age of 16 and was #1 in tennis for the next two years. While at the top of her game, she was stabbed in the back by a fan sending her from six hour workouts to the comfort of food and recovery. She came back and won the 1996 Australian Open. Her two handed forehand and backhand was how Monica naturally picked up the racket at a young age and how she chose to put it down at the end of her career. Among all of life’s options and confusion, when she focused on herself and her own missions the self-motivation from her insides led her to fulfillment and happiness.
The number one rule she had growing up on the court (with her father as a coach) was to have fun.
Monica won 9 Grand Slam titles and experienced fame, tragedy, self-discovery and triumph. Monica found what she was comfortable with and compared herself to her own expectation, not to anyone else’s. This is how she developed her grip.
