Caroline Garcia prepared with sophrology

She became the first Frenchwoman qualified for the Masters semi-finals since 2006. Caroline Garcia, a tennis player with a meteoric rise, was far from winning the game. Blocked by back pain, the 8th world player favored the mental preparation during his training. And it’s there relaxation therapy who helped her stay the course.

How? ‘Or’ What prepare for a sports competition when his physical condition is not good? Caroline Garcia could probably provide some answers to this question. Because this year, the young player had to find effective alternatives to purely physical training. And it is in particular through sophrology that the 24-year-old tenniswoman was able to perfect her game.

“Normally, we work a lot at the physical level and tennis. There, it was not possible. Caroline spent almost a month without playing, and started playing again at the end of December. Instead, she did a lot of physiotherapy, strengthening and rebalancing work, especially in the pelvis. She also made a big sophrology work and of mental visualization. This is an area that has interested us for a long time, we took the opportunity to deepen it. In this kind of period of inactivity, it’s interesting not to lose too much sensation in the brain. “Said his father to Tennismagazine.com

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Caroline Garcia has indeed benefited fromaccompaniment of a mental trainer during a whole initiation phase. It is during these sessions that she acquires new tools to perfect her game. A technique that she ends up mastering, so much so that the young player does not hesitate to reproduce the sessions alone, independently.

In a recent interview for the magazine Team, the player explains how she managed to beat Caroline Wozniacki despite her lead in the first part of the game. And it is undoubtedly her strong minded which helped her not to be destabilized.

There was a lot of pressure in this 3rd set, I was led 5-3, but I managed to stay calm, keep my common thread and stay well in the present“.

Calm, concentration and anchoring, concepts particularly developed in relaxation therapy, and who clearly knew how to make a difference in the young French girl.