What do you say to yourself whenever you make an unforced error? My favourites are: "Think!" "Oh, you woman!" "You stupid tart!" "Don't do that you idiot!" "Get a grip!" "What's that?!?" "That's atrocious!" Aleik.
i usually give myself encouragements when i make an unforced error. then, when a repeated mistake occurs, i'd go: "please don't do that again!", "deja vu" .. and Very soon: "BRAINS! where ARE you??!!" "you're EMBARASSINg me!" "i'd sure like to give you a Piece of my mind" "i'm SO gonna give you a piece of my mind" "you're ridiculous" "run, idiot, Run" "come on, a Snail can do better than that!" "good for you!"
I tend to go more for sarcasm when I make unforced errors: "Great shot" "What a winner" "Brilliant" "One more time" "There's more where that came from" etc etc
"Doh!" "Stupid shot" or if not getting into position "Move your feet" "Move your feet you fat lazy ba****rd"
Mine would be... "S*H*I*T!" "What the hell?!" "Move faster!" "That's stupid!" "You can do better than that!"
Mine is: -S*** -What are you doing -come on you can do hit -I will get you -no i cant lose now -please ka-shing please -stop this Li stop this -YESSSSSSSSSSS -NOOOOO
"No, you idiot" "Holy cow" "You pork chop, not there" "Come on, move, you slug" "Holy......" "What were you thinking" "Great, now what"
'that sucked.' 'that was horrible.' 'crap.' 's***.' 'suck it up.' sometimes i will just make this really whiny noise and hit myself with the racquet.
I say "oh s**" in slow motion with a chinese accent so its like: "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH s***......" I got that off a comedy movie somewhere.....couldn't stop laughing. For more serious and often-repeated mistakes, I say the f--- word silently undermy breath.
Not very silent when i can hear you from across the court kenny I usually shout "DAMMIT" and in my head thinking "move your fat ass"
I usually just whisper or lip these things: "aww crap..." "arg...play smarter..." "what kind of shot was that?" "i suck..." or physically I usually just tap my forehand lightly with the strings of my racquet.
usually the sarcasm route.... makes me feel a little better... until things get really really bad, then i usually yell at myself... things said can vary, but usually don't include coarse language.... but if i have to yell at myself, i'll probably lose the game (or match) so i try to refrain..
I think best one that got laughs out of the crowds that were watching (I wasn't laughing btw, I was angry haha) was... "OH F*** ME" because it was 16-16 and I couldn't kill the bad lob and smashed an inch outside of the singles line.