With Pat Rafter at White City, Newk’s approach was remarkably similar. Pat had ‘choked’ as a consequence of being too focused on the outcome or too focused on not being ‘enough’. Newk changed the focus from winning to a ‘war of attrition’, a real dogfight. Pat was now more focused on the fight than the result, on the fight for each and every point. He was now so much more in the present moment and not too far ahead of himself as you are when you are focused on some future-based result.
