What Newk was able to do with Todd was to stop him thinking about the result and instead focus on breaking serve. When Todd stopped worrying about the result, something he had lost belief in, his anxiety dropped and he got his focus back. With that came the determination to break serve. Newk ‘engineered’ a change in Todd’s emotional state that in turn led to an improvement in performance. Slowly Todd got back on top of his opponent and his belief returned.
