Crown Point senior forward Addy Sabau’s turnaround this season wasn’t a matter of talent.

A sentence in the first chapter of W. Timothy Gallwey’s “The Inner Game of Tennis” summed up Sabau’s junior season: “I’m my own worst enemy; I usually beat myself.”

Crown Point coach Dave Bock even benched her at times.

“I was kind of a head case,” Sabau said. “I was not tough mentally. When I would make a mistake, I would get down on myself, and then Dave would pull me out because I wasn’t performing to expectations.

“That was definitely something I had to overcome — the mental part of the game.”

So Bock gave her Gallwey’s book during the offseason.

“This summer, he said, ‘Look, you’ve got to step it up. You’re possibly going to be a captain,’” Sabau said. “He even gave me this book to read abo

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