Steve Johnson: Playing to your strengths and making your opponents uncomfortable

Baseline Intelligence with Jonathan Stokke

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Steve Johnson is our guest for the 41st episode of Baseline Intelligence. Steve has been ranked as high as 21st in the world in singles and 39th in doubles, and won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics. He's also a four-time team NCAA champion and a two-time individual NCAA champion in singles.

We talk:

3:06 Jumping a level in college

5:43 How improving his fitness helped his mentality

12:06 Learning how to lose

16:15 Performance over outcome

21:15 Using his forehand as a weapon

27:12 Making his opponent uncomfortable

31:14 The best coaching advice he's ever received

35:21 His advice for the 4.0 player