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1	Open: An Autobiography more books like this by Andre Agassi add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $13.45! new only from $13.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Drop shot more books like this by Harlan Coben add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Levels of the game more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.06! new only from $3.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self more books like this by Monica Seles add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life more books like this by James Blake, Andrew Friedman add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis more books like this by Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Choke more books like this by Stuart Woods add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Crooked Little Heart more books like this by Anne Lamott add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Break Point: The Secret Diary of a Pro Tennis Player more books like this by Vince Spadea, Dan Markowitz add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $45.20!
10	The Thrill of Victory more books like this by Sandra Brown add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Roger Federer Story: Quest for Perfection more books like this by Rene Stauffer add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $14.08! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy more books like this by Frank Deford add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.17! new only from $8.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	You Cannot Be Serious more books like this by John McEnroe, James Kaplan add to wishlist Tennis pro John McEnroe dominated the tennis world in the 1980s with his top-ranked play and his acerbic, sometimes explosive, on-court shenanigans. McEnroe recalls those days in this candid memoir. He replays major matches and rivalries, including those with Bjorn Borg and Jimmy Connors. He writes of his personal struggles and his marriages to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Not So Snow White more books like this by Donna Kauffman add to wishlist Filled with the "sparkling fun" ("Kirkus Reviews") that makes the Glass Slipper, Inc. series so irresistible, "Not So Snow White" finds tennis sensation Tess Hamilton in need of the help of some modern fairy godmothers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Amazing Grace more books like this by Megan Shull add to wishlist In this compulsively readable young adult novel, Grace "Ace" Kincaid, a tennis pro and model at 15, is done with the relentless pressure and isolation that fame has brought her. After officially retiring, she travels to distant Medicine Hat, Alaska, with Ava, an ecologically-minded FBI agent charged with watching over her. For three months, before ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters more books like this by Cecil Harris, Larryette Kyle-Debose, Robert Ryland (Afterword by) add to wishlist In this first-ever account of blacks in professional tennis, authors Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose draw on personal interviews and extensive research to chronicle the triumphs and humiliations of black players from the 1940s to the present. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
17	Courting Danger: My Adventure in World-Class Tennis, Golden-Age Hollywood, and High-Stakes...... more books like this by Alice Marble, Dale Leatherman add to wishlist Courting Danger is the life story of a remarkable and resilient woman. Filled with colorful anecdotes about tennis and Hollywood, the book also reveals her most dangerous off-court escapde as a spy for U.S. Army Intelligence during WWII. Her hair-raising mission and escape are the climax to a real-life tale that readers of Beryl Markham and The ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Pressure Is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes more books like this by Billie Jean King, Christine Brennan, Holly Hunter (Preface by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Handful of Summers more books like this by Gordon Forbes add to wishlist First published in 1991 and now available in paperback, an insider's account of what it was like to play tennis on the international circuit in the 1950s and 1960s, as the tennis world stumbled from amateur status into professionalism. see all copies from $2.79! new only from $15.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Visions of Wimbledon : a celebration of the world's finest Wimbledon photography more books like this by Allsport (UK) Ltd add to wishlist A celebration of Allsport's best images at Wimbledon. It is also a celebration of Wimbledon itself. see all copies from $6.47!
21 view cover	Sudden Death more books like this by Rita Mae Brown add to wishlist A novel about what happens behind-the-scenes on the women's tennis circuit. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Nothing But Trouble: The Story of Althea Gibson more books like this by Sue Stauffacher, Greg Couch (Illustrator) add to wishlist ALTHEA IS NOTHING BUT TROUBLE! Everyone agrees: her mama, her daddy, her teacher, even the policeman. But when Buddy Walker, the play leader on Althea's street in Harlem, watches her play paddle tennis, he sees something more: pure possibility. Buddy buys Althea her very own stringed tennis racket, and before long, she's on her way to becoming a ... see all copies from $2.35! new only from $5.90! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar more books like this by E Digby Baltzell add to wishlist In this history of men's lawn tennis, the author traces the careers of a privileged Anglo-American elite, against a setting of public schools, clubs and country mansions. He relates tales of Wimbledon, Newport and the Davis Cup, and includes the names of many famous amateur players. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions
24	My Life and Game more books like this by Bjorn Borg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies more books like this by Paul Fein, Bud Collins (Foreword by) add to wishlist Includes insights about the top players through full-length interviews and features see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.72! \| first editions \| SVS

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