Bob Litwin didn't become serious about playing tennis tournaments until he
was 34 years old. Until then he had played high school tennis and a couple of Eastern men's open matches. He lost
to every opponent he was supposed to lose to. He lost to nearly everybody who was at his level. In fact, he frequently
lost to players who seemed to be levels below him. Yet when it didn't count, he was able to win against all levels.
He just couldn't play in competition the way he could play when there was no pressure on him to win.
Convinced that the solution lay in improving his ability to concentrate under pressure, Litwin created The Focused
Game Method, a system to get focused and stay focused. Applying the simple steps to his own game, good results
soon followed.
At 37, Litwin won a bronze and a gold medal at the International Maccabian Games. Less than three years later,
he won the USTA National 35 and over Grass Court Championships. And just a year after that, he won the National
40 and over Championships, the only senior player in history, at that time, to win both events. He slowly went
from being an unranked player in 1984 to the #1 ranked player in the World in 2005, was the 2002 USPTA Men's Senior
National Player of the Year, and has been named USPTA Eastern Player of the Year ten times since1992.
Currently the #1 in the World for 55 and over by the International Tennis Federation, Bob is also the reigning
World Champion and two time National Grass Singles and Doubles Champion. He has been a member of the United States
Senior Cup teams for five of the last seven years. As a member of these teams he has competed for and won the Senior
World Team Championships. He has played the World Championships 5 times since 1999 and has been a semifinalist,
two time finalist and, most recently, Champion. In 2004 He defaulted in the finals because of a religious conflict.
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Just how did he make such a dramatic change? FOCUS.
As his reputation as "The Focus Coach" grew, Litwin formed The Sports Focus Institute, through which
he has consulted for athletes and businesses in their quest to learn how to get and stay focused. Using relaxation
techniques, visualization, and attention skills, he helped a Hershey contest winner successfully kick a field goal
at the Pro Bowl, a feat for which the contest winner earned $1,000,000. He has helped people to extraordinary levels
of performance in many sports, including rowing, riding, show jumping, golf, basketball, and tennis.
Litwin is the Mental Training Consultant for tournament players at the Robbie Wagner Tournament Training Center
in Glen Cove, New York. He leads group sessions in a year round program. He also meets with players, parents and
coaches in private sessions.
