Liam Broady: I'm feeling great, better than I ever have on court
Brit tennis star Liam Broady recently spoke about battling his mental demons. "I'm feeling great, better than I ever have on court, so I'm pretty sure the results will start following soon," he told Press Association Sport.
Losing 8 matches on the trot was not easy for the Brit, who reworked his strategy with his coach Phil Quirk.
He said, "I wasn't sure if it was what I wanted to do any more because I didn't feel happy as a person, and I fell out of touch with a lot of people who care about me, which I think is probably a very guy thing to do.
"On tour it's kind of a dog-eat-dog world, you don't want to show weakness to anyone else, you don't want to say you're struggling because they're trying to take food off your plate and you're trying to take food off theirs.
"I don't really like to complain about stuff and I only started to realise how much I was going through the motions towards the end of the year.
He then spoke about his sister Naomi Broady, a fellow player on the tennis tour. "I called Naomi after the French Open and I was really upset, and that was a bit weird because I don't really get upset around anyone, but I didn't really feel like I had anyone else to talk to."
Naomi added, "There's so much talk in this country at the moment surrounding men's mental health, and I think it's really important with the (suicide) statistics we have, so I was really glad he did reach out," she said.
She further: "I went through a phase of having terrible anxiety, which I still deal with now, and sometimes panic attacks, and then you can get really down because of your tennis. It's difficult to not take your self worth and total happiness from your results."
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