Enjoyment: Fresh clues for coaches

“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.