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Coping and the Challenge of Resilience

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On January 24, 2016, a young relatively unknown 20-year-old tennis player, Daria ‘Dasha’ Gavrilova was playing in the fourth round of the Australian Open Grand Slam Tennis Tournament. To date, that was the furthest she had advanced in a Grand Slam. In the weeks before, she had won numerous matches and smiled during the course of the matches, particularly when she was the victor. She won the crowds over; the media loved her. She breezed through the first set effortlessly with a 6-0 score. But then things unravelled. She lost the next two sets 6-3 and 6-2. At the end of the match she sunk to her knees in disappointment. Having lost one point after another she looked to her coach’s box, pleading for support. The coach’s face was rather stern. Daria pulled out a folded sheet of paper as she sat between matches on which were some motivational texts she had written to herself. Following the loss she described herself as having been very ‘emotional and going crazy…I got myself emotionally fried and crazy. I was going mad at myself.’ Her positive self-scripts did not appear to help. Instead she was visibly blaming herself. Self-blame is the coping strategy that is most clearly associated with low well-being. Rather than staying calm and focused, she invested energy in self-denigration. In contrast, her opponent, Carla Suerez Navarro described her own performance as having started too relaxed in the first set but then, ‘You have to believe. I try, I fight, I was there…I just believed that I can (win) and until the last point I fight’ (McGowan, 2016).

As a tennis player you are guaranteed to lose every week of the year. You always look to the tournament next week. (Justin, tennis player)

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