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The Best Tennis of Your Life: 50 Mental Strategies for Fearless Performance
Jeff Greenwald
Betterway Books, 2007
Excellent & Relevant Advice for Playing Great Tennis
As a therapist and tennis player who has read numerous books and articles on the mental aspect of tennis, Jeff Greenwald's book and cd are by far the most helpful and the most relevant I've come across. While other mental tennis books are interesting and helpful, ...
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Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, ...
William Gurstelle
Chicago Review Press, 2001
A great guide for projects with your kids
Some of the stuff in here is dangerous, but kids will never respect danger if they don't experience a little firsthand. The projects in the book are a lot of fun and can teach you a lot about physics and chemistry.
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Skeleton Key (Alex Rider)
Anthony Horowitz
Puffin, 2006
Alex Rider
Eagle Strike is the fourth book in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Alex is a truly wonderful creation. He is the person every schoolboy in the world wants to be. Each of Horowitz's books is twice as good as the last. Horowitz has excelled himself yet again ...
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Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master
Brad Gilbert, Steve Jamison
Fireside, 1994
The Mental edge in Tennis
Although I no longer play tennis, this remains my favorite tennis book. After beating Becker to win Wimbledon, Brad explained how he had done it. He said: "I couldn't beat him at his level so I had to drag him down to my level." And anyone who saw that match knows that ...
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Back Bay Books, 2006
Great even if you don't get everything
I didn't, like one reviewer here suggested, look up every word I didn't know in the dictionary (and there were a lot. Antinomy?) I didn't even read all the footnotes, because after a while this was, even though it was a great book, one of those books where you start ...
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Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
Gary Mack, David Casstevens
McGraw-Hill, 2002
Best one for athletes!
I have read several books on the mental game in sports and this is by far the best. I work with collegiate and professional athletes and recommend this so often that Gary Mack should send me a commission!!!
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The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1997
This book is a must read for every amateur and professional tennis player and tennis teacher
Does it matter how and what we think about while we are playing tennis ? Yes, it matters so much that it affects our tennis performance significantly and could even affect our mental well being. W. Timothy Gallwey obviously understands both tennis and psychology very ...
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The Clique Summer Collection #2: Dylan (Clique Series)
Poppy, 2008
Courtesy of Teens Read Too
DYLAN is the second book in THE CLIQUE SUMMER COLLECTION, and lives up to the reputation of the CLIQUE series.
Dylan and her mom (who is a famous TV personality) travel to Hawaii to interview the world-famous tennis player, Svetlana. Svetlana has recently gotten ...
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Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff
Jim Johnson
Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2007
Well, it worked
I hurt my rotator cuffs doing some bag work. I waited a long time (I'm a guy) to go into an ortho. He gave me the advice to work on my posture, lose weight and a photocopy of some exercises to do. Told me that how I injured myself didn't matter, fixing it was what ...
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A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis
Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo
Crown, 2008
Brilliant, another grand Slam for Pete Sampras
Pete Sampras was not only a great and exceptional tennis player, but also a great athlete and competitor in Sports History.
In this book he gives a very great insight of his life in the top, the struggle that every champion has to carry on. It is great how he handled ...
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The Art of Doubles: Winning Tennis Strategies and Drills
Pat Blaskower
Betterway Books, 2007
great book
I loved this book. Pat lays out a comprehensive study of doubles strategy and its application that just makes sense. It's punctuated with personal stories that keep it light as well as give examples of her talking point. I'd recommend this book to any doubles player no ...
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Tennis for Dummies
Patrick McEnroe, Peter Bodo
For Dummies, 1998
Great for tennis beginners!
I just started playing tennis and jumped in with both feet - joining an ALTA team. Practices were great but I knew nothing about the rules and terms. This book does a great job of explaining everything and it turns out several women on my team own it!
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Tennis Tactics: Winning Patterns of Play
United States Tennis Association
Human Kinetics Publishers, 1996
winning the right way
This book addresses effective tennis strategies from every angle. Tennis is a mental game after all. You just need physical fitness and endurance to go with it. Each drill comes with a clear description (category, purpose, player's level, time, procedure, coaching ...
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How to Succeed in the Game of Life: 34 Interviews with the World's Greatest Coaches
Christian Klemash
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2006
An outstanding read
A thoroughly enjoyable and motivating read. This is a remarkable collection of exclusive interviews with the best American sports coaches of the last 40 years. The author has packed a voluminous amount of wisdom, inspiration and facts into what amounts to a road map ...
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Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes (Billie Jean King Library)
Billie Jean King
LifeTime Media Inc., 2008
A GREAT READ
I'VE BEEN A BJK FAN FOR OVER 45 YEARS...I WATCHED HER GROW FROM A GIDDY TEENAGER INTO THE WONDERFUL WOMEN SHE IS NOW..
I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HER 4 YEARS AGO...SHE IS WHAT SHE BELIEVES..
SHE GIVES HER FANS HER FULL ATTENTION AND SINCERELY ENJOYED MEETING US ...
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