Dr. Roland A. Carlstedt

TennisONE is pleased to welcome Dr. Roland A. Carlstedt to our family of contributors. Roland, a Board Certified Sport Psychologist and Tennis Coach earned his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Psychology with Honors from Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco under the renowned Personality Psychologist and
Behavioral Geneticist Dr. Auke Tellegen of the University of Minnesota. Dr. Carlstedt's dissertation on neuropsychological processes in highly skilled athletes (700) from 7 sports including tennis is being nominated for the Society of Neuroscience's Annual 2002 Lindsley Award for Best Dissertation in Behavioral Neuroscience and was given the seal of distinction from Saybrook Graduate school as an outstanding contribution to human knowledge. His Master's thesis was on psychologically mediated heart rate variability during tournament tennis. Future articles for Tennis One will emanate from much of his highly acclaimed and peer-reviewed research.

Dr. Carlstedt is well known in Europe where he lived most of his adult life. While based in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Roland worked on the professional tennis tours as a coach, sport psychologist and analyst for the media from 1985-1997. He has provided psychological analyses and features for television at all Grand Slam events, including EuroSport, ARD Germany, RTL, Germany, ZDF, Germany, and RTL, Holland.

He is a published author and columnist in more than 40 countries. His instructional series on tennis and tennis psychology have appeared in major tennis publications worldwide. His book "Mentales Tennis" (SportInform Verlag, 1995) and Video "PsychoTennis" are available in Europe.

Roland is also the creator of the Psychological World Rankings for Tennis, an annual ranking of the psychological performance of professional tennis players. They have appeared worldwide in major publications including Bild Zeitung Germany, Inside Tennis USA, Tennis Magazin Germany, Happy Tennis Austria, etc. His 2001 rankings will appear in Tennis One at the end of the year.

Dr. Carlstedt has coached and advised numerous top players and coaches, most recently Ronald Agenor (former world ranked 22) at the start of his comeback, Niki Pilic 3 time Davis Cup Champion Germany's Captain, Rohan Goetzke, coach of Richard Krajicek, Eric Jelen, and Patrick Kuehen to name a few. He also played professional team tennis in Austria and Germany and was certified by the USPTR in 1976 and inducted into the ATP coaches division in 1986.

Currently, Dr. Carlstedt is the Executive Director of the American Board of Sport Psychology and President of PsychoSports. He is also an Assistant Psychologist and Post-doctoral Resident in Clinical and Neuropsychology and is available for consulting and coaching specializing in biofeedback, hypnosis, and the training of neuropsychological processes to improve performance, as well as psychotherapy. Dr. Carlstedt is listed in the American Psychological Association's Directory of Experts in Sport Psychology.

He can be contacted at americanboardofsportpsychology.org and via DrRCarlstedt@aol.com.

Roland's unique slant on Sport Psychology and cutting-edge research will be presented regularly and include an interactive feature in the near future. Please feel free to send him your questions.