Open: An Autobiography more books like this

by Andre Agassi

A stunning memoir by one of the world's most beloved athletes, "Open" offers a nuanced self-portrait, an intensely candid account of a remarkable life, and a thrilling inside view of the pro tennis tour.

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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance more books like this

by W Timothy Gallwey, Pete Carroll (Foreword by), Zach Kleinman (Preface by)

"The Inner Game of Tennis" is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. Now available in a revised paperback edition, this classic bestseller can change the way the game of tennis is played.

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Winning Ulgy more books like this

by Brad Gilbert, Steve Jamison

Brad Gilbert has become one of the world's greatest tennis players by "winning ugly"--analyzing and capitalizing on an opponent's weakness. Now Gilbert shows how to think better--and win more often--on the court. "Winning Ugly is great. These are pro tactics that will improve a recreational player's game fast".--Pete Sampras.

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Successful Coaching more books like this

by Rainer Martens

Being a successful coach is not just about Xs and Os and winning games. It's about coaching young people to become successful athletes - and successful human beings. But unless you already have the teaching skills of an educator, the training expertise of a physiologist, the administrative leadership of a business executive, and the counseling ...

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Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played more books like this

by L Jon Wertheim

In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played an epic match. Wertheim deconstructs this defining moment in sport, which he calls a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennis.

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Drop shot more books like this

by Harlan Coben

Bolitar is an amateur detective, sports agent, and former basketball star. When a former child tennis prodigy is murdered, Bolitar and his sidekick, Widsor Horne Simpson III, go to work.

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Tennis for Dummies more books like this

by Patrick McEnroe, John McEnroe (Foreword by), Peter Bodo

This trainer begins with the very basics and rules of the game and is an introduction to the game for all those whose tennis experience involves sitting on the sofa and not moving during the last week of June and the first week of July each year. The book then takes the reader through the sport and discusses the hardware of the game - racquets, ...

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Levels of the game more books like this

by John McPhee

This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.

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Skeleton Key more books like this

by Anthony Horowitz

Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider faces a desperate man who has lost his country and his son--and has a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. Unless Alex can stop him first.

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Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self more books like this

by Monica Seles

From her record-setting win at the French Open at age 16 to the depression that sidelined her career to her triumphant return, Seles' determination, amazing talent, and touching vulnerability make her story both incredibly human and inspiring.

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Days of Grace more books like this

by Arthur Ashe

Born in 1943 in Virginia against a backdrop of the civil-rights movement and black-power struggle, Arthur Ashe discovered tennis - a white man's sport - in the segregated South. Defeating racial prejudice, in 1963 he was representing the US in Davis Cup matches when the US was exploding with violence over civil rights. He went on to win the US ...

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A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played more books like this

by Marshall Jon Fisher

At once a sports story and a gripping personal drama, "A Terrible Splendor" is about a moment when the world was at war's edge, sport and politics were inextricably linked, and the human spirit triumphed over extreme adversity. b&w photo insert.

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Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life more books like this

by James Blake, Andrew Friedman

In 2004, James Blake's world was getting more perfect by the day. As a rising young tennis star, his life and his game were constantly gathering new momentum while he travelled the world and rose through the international tennis rankings - eventually climbing as high as number twenty-two. With a tournament victory and many great matches under his ...

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The Tennis Party more books like this

by Madeleine Wickham

It was Patrick's idea that they should have the tennis party weekend. After all, he had the perfect setting - the White House. Bought out of his bonuses as an investment salesman, it was complete with stable, cocktail bar, jacuzzi, shell-shaped bedheads and, of course, the tennis court (towered over by an authentic Wimbledon-green umpire's chair). ...

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A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis more books like this

by Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo

Tennis great Sampras draws back the curtain on his storied career, revealing the forces that allowed him to dominate the game. Examining his greatest matches, he details the pressures, stakes, and the lessons he has learned. 8-page full-color photo insert.

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Choke more books like this

by Stuart Woods

Former tennis professional Chuck Chandler has a reputation for choking on the big points and for his inability to keep his hands off his female tennis students. When the elderly, enigmatic husband of his current passion is found dead, Chuck is pursued by Detective Tommy Sculley and by a ruthless West Coast mob boss.

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Crooked Little Heart more books like this

by Anne Lamott

Rosie, the eponymous heroine of an earlier novel, lives with her family in an idyllic little California town. But things are not necessarily what they seem. Rosie's mother is an alcoholic, still mourning the death of her first husband. Rosie's stepfather is a paranoid struggling writer. And 13-year-old Rosie is being stalked by a mysterious man ...

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Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Tales from Tour and Lessons from the Master more books like this

by Brad Gilbert, Steve Jamison

He has been called the best in the world at the mental aspect of tennis. Brad Gilbert's tennis strokes aren't pretty, but looks aren't everything. He's beaten the tour's biggest names and has won five million dollars in prize money. Now he tells recreational players how to win more often without improving their strokes--simply by recognizing, ...

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Break Point: The Secret Diary of a Pro Tennis Player more books like this

by Vince Spadea, Dan Markowitz

At the start of the 2005 season, Vince Spadea was the only over-30 player besides Andre Agassi to be ranked in the top 20 on the world professional tennis circuit. Break Point is his highly-acclaimed account of the 2005 season, where he provides an inside look at the 11-month tour, including battling injuries, changing coaches and agents, a slight ...

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The Thrill of Victory more books like this

by Sandra Brown

Stevie Corbett is a tennis star with two weeks to decide whether to proceed with an operation that will save her health but possibly ruin her chances of winning a Grand Slam title. Judd Mackie has even less time to uncover Stevie's secret health problems and scoop the world. But Judd finds that his attraction to the beautiful athlete is ...

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Inner Game of Tennis more books like this

by W. Timothy Gallwey

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The Roger Federer Story: Quest for Perfection more books like this

by Rene Stauffer

This is the biography of tennis superstar Roger Federer, the Swiss tennis player regarded as the greatest player in the history of the sport. The book provides an authoritative life storyline for Federer from the background of his parents, to Roger's early days as a temperamental junior tennis player, through his early beginnings in professional ...

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Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy more books like this

by Frank Deford

Tennis great William T. Tilden II dominated the courts during the 1920s, and for seven years in a row, he never lost a significant match. Flamboyant both in public and private, Tilden was eventually arrested--and shunned--for his homosexuality. He died penniless and alone, years before his election into the tennis Hall of Fame. Illustrations.

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Play Better Tennis in Two Hours: Simplify the Game and Play Like the Pros more books like this

by Oscar Wegner, Steven Ferry, Wegner Oscar

Can tennis really be this simple? Just ask the dozens of world-class players who have made it to the top, using Oscar Wegner's groundbreaking approach. But if playing tennis isn't so easy for you, if you never seem to play up to your potential, don't blame yourself - blame the coach who taught you a lot of uselessly complex techniques. "Play ...

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My Secret Life as a Ping-Pong Wizard more books like this

by Henry Winkler, Lin Oliver

Hank secretly takes up Ping-Pong and lands a spot in the championship. When he finds out the contest is held at "Nick the Tick" McKelty's bowling alley, will he risk being the laughing stock of the fifth grade because it's not a "real" sport? Illustrations.

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