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Article: Preparing for competition. (includes information sources)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- December 1, 1993
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"I pictured winning every point," says tennis champion Gabriela Sabatini. "I visualized winning the whole tournament, never letting Steffi Graf into the match."
That she did, and as a result accomplished a stunning upset, taking home the United States Open tennis title in 1990 at the age of 19.
The process that Sabatini used to give herself that mental edge is called imaging or visualization. Many top players in a variety of sports are using this process to make themselves ready for competition. In essence, they "run a movie" of a successful performance in their heads.
These successful athletes have learned that preparing for competition ...