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Patrick McEnroe teaches tennis with a little help from brother John!
Not only has Patrick proven his skill on the court, (two-time NCAA Champion, ATP ranked singles and doubles player, French Open Doubles Champion, Davis Cup Team member), but off the court as well, being called "one of the top TV sports studio analysts" by USA Today. With Patrick's instruction, you will be guided through the fundamentals of the game, learning rules and regulations and then working your way into the forehand, backhand and other swings that make a player successful. Have a recurring pain, such as tennis elbow or shin splints? No problem. With a section on physical conditioning and common tennis injuries, you can find out what ails you and how to prevent it. Whether you are a tennis fanatic aiming at capturing your country club title, or a recreational player just looking to sharpen your skills, TENNIS FOR DUMMIES will give you the advantage you need to take your game up to the next level.
Tim Gallwey's classic.
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.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Brad Gilbert (now Andre Agassi's coach) became 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.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
A reader says...
A must for all tennis players and coaches! This book goes into detail on how the game of tennis is actually played. I found the ideas concerning the strokes informative and well researched. Groppel also gives ideas on strategy, surfaces, shoes, rackets which gives the reader a wider perspective.Avg. Customer Review: ****
Millions play the sport and even more watch it on television, yet tennis remains a new and intriguing adventure for the hundreds of thousands each year who grab a racquet for the first time. Tracy Austin provides a lighthearted and yet authoritative introduction to the sport, with information on its history, fashions, rules, equipment, etiquette, and other tennis topics.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
From legendary tennis coach Vic Braden comes an updated and improved edition of his bestselling tennis classic "Vic Braden's Tennis for the Future". 160 illustrations.
A Physicist aims the cold light of science at tennis. Confirms and refutes many nuggets of conventional tennis wisdom using physics and statistics.
Avg. Customer Review: ***
This provides a specific program for quickly improving one's overall tennis game through an analysis of what makes professional players' moves so effective. Photos of stars in action accompany details on why these individuals are successful in the sport - and how beginners can make immediate improvement in their game strategies and plays.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
- Tennis Tactics
Winning Patterns of Play
United States Tennis Association
A Davis Cup winner, Pepperdine coach and author of If I'm the Better Player, Why Can't I Win? has written the first book on the strategy and mental dimension of the game since Timothy Gallwey's bestselling Inner Game of Tennis. Here Fox reveals how to take mental control of the game. 100 diagrams and photos.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Legendary tennis coach Vic Braden shows players step-by-step how to improve their doubles game. From selecting a partner to covering the net, from key rally shots to practice drills, this amply illustrated guide provides all the tips and strategies anyone needs to laugh and win at the fastest growing game in tennis. 150 photos.
One of the world's most respected tennis coaches explains how to combine mental techniques and psychological strategies with physical efforts to improve one's game of tennis.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Now available in paperback: in response to the thousands of questions the author receives from tennis players of all levels, Vic Braden's Quick Fixes is the definitive "problems and cures" guide to helping players improve their game. 215 black-and-white photographs.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Coaching Tennis
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Coaching Tennis provides detailed descriptions of physical training techniques, plus useful guidelines for mental and emotional development. Included is information on anaerobic endurance training, strength and flexibility training, nutrition, stroke production, technical skill development, injury prevention, and game styles.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Coaching Youth Tennis is guide for working with 6- to 14-year-old athletes. It explains how to teach kids important tennis skills and strategies at a level that's just right for them. This coaching resource explains the most effective methods for teaching tennis fundamentals. Parents and youth tennis coaches, even in their first season, will find all the information they need for coaching effectively.
The author says...
The book I’ve written contains over 150 tennis games that are creative, challenging to both imagination and skill level and will empower children to play tennis. I am absolutely positive that you will find that this book has the answers to all your kids' tennis needs! Visit my website (www3.sympatico.ca/let) and read many of the coaches, players and writers, comments on the book and more. Best Regards, Reggie Vasquez Jr.Avg. Customer Review: *****
Covering all the elements--equipment, conducting a practice session, how and when to choose a tennis pro--this revised edition also includes illustrations that show correct stance and strokes, step-by-step instructions on how to coach a child, technique building drills and exercises, and a glossary of tennis terms. B&w illustrations.
Youth Tennis features a unique approach to athletic success while detailing the rules and etiquette of the game. Special emphasis is given to the concerns of young players.
A no-holds-barred look at the tennis world as told by one of the game's most controversial and outrageous coaches. Perceived both as a genius and as a tyrant who puts tennis before everything, Nick Bollettieri delivers an unflinching account of his decades in the game--including his tempestuous relationships with Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Boris Becker, and Jim Courier.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
Training, Fiteness and Health
In a tennis specific fashion, this book provides exercises, routines, and programs for developing strength, power, agility, aerobic capacity, and flexibility. 100 photos. 56 illustrations.
Arguably the best tennis coach in the world today, Bollettieri is known for finding and developing great young players at his renowned tennis academy. Now, for the first time, his teachings on mental fitness in tennis are available outisde of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy to players who want the inside edge on their own home courts.
Donald A. Chu, one of the foremost training and fitness experts in the country and a training consultant to the USTA and top tennis pros presents a training program that combines a variety of training methods which are integrated into three training blocks, each lasting four weeks, that feature a mix of different workouts. Written with Todd Martin.
From the trainers of 13 medal winners in the 1992 Olympics comes a clear guide to the revolutionary technique of Active Isolated Stretching. Now featured in every leading fitness and health magazine, this easy-to-follow program includes special considerations for dozens of different sports and activities plus special tips for pregnant women, older athletes, and more.
Average Customer Review: *****
Stretching Scientifically discusses all factors limiting flexibility (muscle tissue, connective tissue, and nervous system). Brilliantly simple tests of hip joint mobility and of your muscle length dispel common misconceptions on what limits your flexibility the most. You will learn how to develop each of the three kinds of flexibility (dynamic, static active, and static passive) to suit your athletic needs. Sensible design of exercises lets you stretch alone -- without a partner or equipment while the use of knowledge of methodology of sports training improves your flexibility instantly with only a few minutes of stretching daily.
Do you know that it takes only eight weeks to attain maximum dynamic flexibility? Only eight weeks to high kicks with no warm-up! If you work on it for any longer than that it means that you or your instructor is doing something wrong.
Learn:
* How to stretch safely and quickly to achieve and maintain your maximum flexibility
* How to make your muscles grow stronger and longer so you stay flexible all the time
* How to attain maximum height in your kicks and to be able to kick at that height with no warm-up
* How to do splits even if you are over 40 or 50
* How to kick high and do splits with no warm-up
* What exercises are "no-no's" if you want to stretch your musclesAverage Customer Review: *****
Average Customer Review: *****
Bestselling author Jane E. Brody, who writes the "Personal Health" column for the New York Times, contributed most of the articles contained in this practical overview of late 1990s health issues. The book is organized thematically, and deals with such topics as the benefits of different types of exercise, new research into issues of weight, protecting oneself from heart disease, maintaining a healthy diet, averting risks of cancer, managing pregnancy, and dealing with issues of aging. The earliest article in the book appeared in the New York Times in 1993, and many of the columns utilize late '90s research and discoveries to correct misconceptions and provide reliable information about health issues.
Player Biographies, History
"Bud has uncovered much previously unpublished
information to delight the game's followers and
fanatics." -- Dick Enberg, NBC-TV.Considered the "bible" of the tennis world, Bud Collins' Tennis Encyclopedia provides thorough statistics and presents a history of the sport, from its country club beginnings in 1876 to the billion-dollar industry it is today. The latest edition includes biographies of the best players, rules of the game, Hall of Fame facts, world rankings since 1991, and more. 230 photos.
Avg. Customer Review: ****
Written in a lively, readable style, this book profiles two women who broke new ground in tennis. Alice Marble (1913-1990) became the first woman to play "power tennis, " and by 1939 had won several Wimbledon titles. Althea Gibson (1927- ) broke the racial "color line" in tennis by entering many previously white-only tournaments, and became the first black person to win both the U.S. Open and Wimbledon competitions.
A no-holds-barred look at the tennis world as told by one of the game's most controversial and outrageous coaches. Perceived both as a genius and as a tyrant who puts tennis before everything, Nick Bollettieri delivers an unflinching account of his decades in the game--including his tempestuous relationships with Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Boris Becker, and Jim Courier. photo insert.
Avg. Customer Review: *****
The U.S. Open is a stirring account of the growth of the U.S. National Championships. Here are the players, the fans, the excitement--and the despair--of the sport's premier event. From H.L. Doherty's win in 1903, to Arthur Ashe's win in 1968, to the emotional return in 1995 of Monica Seles, here is tennis at its best. Archive photos & etchings.
Instructional Videos
- Attack Hot Lessons by Andre Agassi
- How I Play Tennis by Chris Evert
- Let's Play Tennis by Tracy Austin
- Tennis Our Way by Vic Braden & Arther Ashe
- Visual Tennis (video)
- Visual Tennis (book)
More than 200 outstanding photos combine with expert instruction to show exactly how to execute tennis' essential skills, from the forehand through the serve. 230 photos.
This concise video discusses the importance of stretching for playing tennis. Bob Anderson, Eve Ellis, director of the Eve Ellis School of Tennis in New York City and Orlando Florida, Dr. Les Knight, Exercise Physiologist and Billy McGehee, professional tennis promoter work together to teach you why and how to stretch before, during and after a game. Stretching could be the key to reaching your playing potential.
Every tournament director and referee is familiar with the long hours and stacks of paperwork needed to run a successful tennis tournament. The Tournament Management System (TMS) reduces the time spent on administrative tasks by simplifying all phases of tournament management. At the same time, TMS adds professional touches to a tournament that no one can do without.
Personal Tennis Coach is a Windows-based database and personal trainer for tennis players. You can track practices and matches with charts for strokes and personal ratings and use graphs to view your overall game or to monitor specific stroke strengths and weaknesses. Also included are tips for specific problems, a tennis tutorial, a phone book for regular opponents, a calendar for scheduling games, and fields for notes. The online help is more in the form of theory for the game than help for the program itself, but Personal Tennis Coach offers everything you need for organizing and analyzing your tennis games.
Personal Tennis Coach is a DOS-based database and personal trainer for tennis players. You can track practices and matches with charts for strokes and personal ratings. Use graphs to view your overall game, or to monitor specific stroke strengths and weaknesses. Also included are tips for specific problems, a tennis tutorial, a phone book for regular opponents, a calendar for scheduling games, and fields for notes. The program offers good graphics, mouse support for ease of use, and everything tennis players need for organizing their games.
GamePlan software is a comprehensive package of three software programs for scheduling and managing tennis tournaments, ladders, and parties.
Rapidly browse and sort tennis resorts throughout North America with over 250 criteria selections. Search by resort type or special features and characteristics. View and capture tennis properties by room rate, property type, city, state, and even zip code. Read or scan written summaries describing each property and its unique surrroundings to learn everything you need to know to make an informed choice before booking costly travel.
Fitness Log is a database designed to help you track your fitness activity. Originally designed for triathletes, it logs training information for running, biking, or swimming. Data entry is quick and easy and can be as detailed or minimal as you wish. The database provides fields for date, sport, distance, time, pace, type (training or racing), route, pulse, weight, mood, and weather conditions. Add notes and track your splits. Information is displayed in tabular format, but you can sort the fields, view the current day, or workouts by week, month, year, or specified date ranges. Fitness Log doesn't offer many frills, but its streamlined approach provides an effective training log
Aerobic Points Log (APL) is designed to help keep track of aerobic exercises. Suitable for either an individual or a personal trainer with a number of clients, it tracks 14 different types of exercises, including walking, bicycling, swimming, tennis, and one user-defined activity. After you enter exercise information (type, duration, distance, and body weight), the program displays a variety of information, including energy expenditure, oxygen consumption, and calories burned. The program also assigns points to each activity and calculates a Hall of Fame based on the points each participant has earned. APL doesn't have the easiest or most attractive interface, but it's a quick way to keep track of your aerobic progress.
Tennis Games
About the only thing you can’t do in Game, Net & Match by Blue Byte is argue calls with the line judges. This tennis game looks, sounds, and plays great. The richly rendered 3D players move with realistic athleticism, thanks to power from the revolutionary 3D engine Blue Byte borrowed from its own "Extreme Assault”. The stadium courts look like the real thing, right down to the TV cameras and faces of the fans in the background. The game shows the action using a random variety of camera angles, a la TV director--full-court overheads, ground-level isolations of one player, eyeball-to-eyeball close-ups, and more. The digital audio sound effects are strikingly lifelike. Players grunt, balls bounce, and the audience cheers just like the real thing. And ball physics are equally true-to-life
Top Tennis lets you play world-class tennis on your PC. Using four different court surfaces and twelve different venues around the world, you can play singles or doubles with friends or against the computer. Two keyboard inputs and two joysticks are supported.
Tennis Elbow is an interesting game designed for those who enjoy playing challenging tennis matches. Play against the computer or up to three of your friends across a local network or a modem. You can use a variety of input devices, such as keyboard, mouse, or joystick, to activate players on the screen. Once registered, the game allows you to participate in the 90 World Tour Championships and play against the 250 top-ranked players in either singles or doubles matches.
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