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

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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