When you play a ton of tennis, it becomes a part of your psyche and your subconscious. To the point that you can even have dreams involving playing tennis.
This was first revealed after Andy Murray won Wimbledon for the first time in 2013. After the match, Murray was interviewed by ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi and was asked if he had a dream the night before about winning Wimbledon. And Andy answered a reply that was both astonishing and hilarious.
Murray said yes he did have a dream the night before about tennis but it was not about beating Novak Djokovic 64 75 64. Andy’s dream was of playing… … “Denis Kudla.”
In recent years I have had several short, tennis related dreams, of doing interviews with certain players and also playing. The most recent tennis dream I had was last week and it was very brief.
The visuals are vague but I do remember the main component. It was dark hard court, possibly foggy, nobody was watching. I was playing a point, just one single point, and came to the net and played a backhand volley which I hit into the net. I then threw my racquet in disgust. Just threw it, didn’t break it.
And that was the end of the dream. Seriously, this is the truth, I actually did have this dream. It has not recurred since.
I was playing a lot with my friend Harry Cicma a lot during the US Open and we were having fierce battles. During one morning of tiebreakers I did miss some volleys at net, but I did not throw my racquet. Perhaps this dream was somehow provoked by these matches? Perhaps this dream was telling me to throw my racquet after a missed volley? I have no idea what the meaning of this dream could possible be.
Maybe like “Rosebud” in Citizen Kane it’s the symbol of Charles Foster Kane’s lost childhood. Or more likely, maybe the dream was telling me to change racquets to a lighter more flexible frame from my current Volkl Tour 10 V Engine.
From now on I will now document my tennis dreams and someone among our millions of readers will hopefully be able to help me to try to figure out their meanings  🙂
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Duke Carnoustie · September 13, 2018 at 11:27 am
Here was Kudla’s tweet after hearing this…
Congrats to @andy_murray what an incredible effort to win wimbledon!I had the same dream but woke up on the Newport practice courts instead!
Scoop Malinowski · September 13, 2018 at 11:55 am
Maybe an even funnier response by Kudla to the original dream. Gotta love the sense of humor of Murray. And Kudla.
Jg · September 13, 2018 at 2:58 pm
Hilarious by Kudla, by the way is Tiafoe playing singles tomorrow, they have both Querrey and Johnson, but are they putting Tiafoe in singles? If yes, good move getting some new players in there.
Scoop Malinowski · September 13, 2018 at 3:43 pm
Yes, big foe is in singles. Q ball out.
Krzysztof · September 13, 2018 at 5:41 pm
Night dreams are simply the product of mixing different day thoughts, thereby they are related to what happened earlier but usually with some dream additions. It has been confirmed by scientists.
Scoop Malinowski · September 13, 2018 at 9:22 pm
Krzysztof you are now officially our special counselor dream editor correspondent 🙂 Thank you for the insights. I look forward to a dream of hitting a serve and volley winner on match point at Wimbledon or Roland Garros vs Nadal or Djokovic.
catherine · September 14, 2018 at 2:21 am
Dreams are just junk floating around in your mind. In themselves they have no meaning at all and are best forgotten.
Scientific research has confirmed this 🙂
Scoop Malinowski · September 14, 2018 at 9:01 am
I think you are right Catherine.