About Us

My name is Mason Astley. Tennis is my favorite sport, and mental skills is my passion.

For the past 10 years, I have been coaching varsity collegiate players at Harvard and MIT. When I started teaching tennis twenty years ago, I only understood the mental side of tennis through my own game. This left me with an anecdotal sense of what made a successful competitor. Unsatisfied, I earned a Master’s degree in Sport Psychology, and dove headlong into college coaching, where I have worked with and against, a wide variety of players: entry-level Division III, Division III All-Americans, Division I players with professional aspirations. I have seen how all these kinds of players compete and adapt to stress, and examined what, beyond their strokes, made some of them more successful, and less tortured, than others.

Over the last decade, I have developed and refined principles for coaching successful college tennis players, and written a practical mental skills workbook for young players.

I recognize that tennis is not entirely about your mental approach. Certainly, you have to develop your physical skills and get in shape. Nonetheless, most players under-train their mental game. The result is inconsistent application of their skills, and mixed results in match play. The goal of my work is to help you feel how you want to feel so you can play how you want to play, every time that you step on the court.