Open AccessEnjoyment: Fresh clues for coaches
Author(s) -
Janet Young
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
itf coaching and sport science review/coaching and sport science review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1812-2310
pISSN - 1812-2302
DOI - 10.52383/itfcoaching.v24i68.176
Subject(s) - champion , tournament , psychology , visual arts , aesthetics , advertising , art , mathematics education , mathematics , political science , business , law , combinatorics
“I was never pushed, mum didn’t know anything about tennis so when I went off to a tournament she’d say ‘Bye, have a lovely day’, and when I came back she’d say ‘Hi, did you have a lovely day?’ Having fun was the one thing that helped me most (to be a champion).” (Evonne Goolagong Cawley). This paper reviews Csikszentmihalyi’s conceptualisation of enjoyment as a process that occurs when high challenges and skills are matched. Implications for coaches are explored together with the benefits that can arise when tennis is fun.