Andrey Rublev and Casper Ruud are best known for their courage on the tennis court, but they showed the National Bank Open on Monday by Rogers that they have had enough of the field.
The ATP Tour stars participated in a discussion in the psychological panel of Tennis Canada in Toronto to break the stigma around the mental health of male athletes and the link to performance.
Ruud said: “I had good experience talking to a psychologist and I felt like you went to the gym with a public trainer to work on your fitness, but talking to a psychologist is a kind of work on your mental aspect in the same way. You work your brain in one [way] And let your thoughts sort and find a new way to motivate yourself, so I just thought it was really useful.
“I didn’t want to be a voice, but it felt like a natural thing to talk about nowadays and that I wanted to advise people if you have a hard time or if you have problems or feel that you are not sure if you have to talk to someone or not, I think it is definitely a good thing to try and it really helped for me.”
Rublev, who recently opened his struggles in a special ATP documentary, explained that for him mental health is about much more than tennis.
“In my case it is not about tennis. Tennis for me was a trigger because I identified myself with tennis, so for me it was more about myself to understand further than tennis,” said Rublev. ‘[I wanted to know] What I hide behind tennis, why I make so much drama when I am losing if I am super high when I am winning. It was more to face myself, the real me. It had nothing to do with tennis. ‘
The host of the panel was Caroline Cameron of Sportsnet and other participants were Tennis Canada director of Wellness Marie-Josee Bellemare and ATP coach member Craig Boynton, who described the changes in the way mental health in sport in sport in sport describes.
“In the 90s this was a very taboo topic. It was that you hadn’t talked about mental health. If you did, it was a weakness. It was therefore interesting to see this progress in recent decades,” Boynton said. “People would start talking about it, but in the shadow. They would talk about it, but they would hold it firmly because they did not want to be assessed. And then as life progressed and these tennis players [have progressed, people] talk about them as people.
“They are great people and great tennis players, but you have to take care of the person to help the tennis. From the 90s it left tennis, just working on tennis, tennis, now that we work on the person and work on the person to be able to work on tennis … It is an eye -catching experience for me to sit down and let it sit.”
The initiatives for mental health of tennis Canada are aimed at promoting consciousness, promoting healthy habits and ensuring that our tennis community has access to the mental health care they need.
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