Winning Ugly

Winning Ugly

Author: Brad Gilbert

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1476715092

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The tennis classic from Olympic gold medalist and ESPN analyst Brad Gilbert, now featuring a new introduction with tips drawn from the strategies of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Andy Murray, and more, to help you outthink and outplay your toughest opponents. A former Olympic medalist and now one of ESPN’s most respected analysts, Brad Gilbert shares his timeless tricks and tips, including “some real gems” (Tennis magazine) to help both recreational and professional players improve their game. In the new introduction to this third edition, Gilbert uses his inside access to analyze current stars such as Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, showing readers how to beat better players without playing better tennis. Written with clarity and wit, this classic combat manual for the tennis court has become the bible of tennis instruction books for countless players worldwide.


The Best Ever Book of Money Saving Tips for Real Tennis Players

The Best Ever Book of Money Saving Tips for Real Tennis Players

Author: Mark Young

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-04-26

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781499267365

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The Best Ever Book of Money Saving Tips for Real Tennis Players: Creative Ways to Cut Your Costs, Conserve Your Capital And Keep Your Cash; is the ultimate guide to saving money and getting rich quick. Filled with the craziest, funniest and most ridiculous money saving tips you can imagine, this humorous, groundbreaking resource shows you how Real Tennis Players waste money and provides you with everything you need to transform your life. The Best Ever Book of Money Saving Tips for Real Tennis Players is filled revolutionary tips that even the tightest Tightwad would have trouble coming up with. Bright ideas include: * Hanging out your dental floss to dry so you can reuse it later * Finding God to reduce your household expenses * Filling your Thermos at work to reduce your water bill * Fasting to reduce your food costs. Other tips include: * Cutting your bathroom costs by 50% * Changing the perception others have of you * Making your family grateful for the things they have * Getting others to help you save money * Reducing your expenditure on food and other necessities. The savings in this book are so extreme; most Veterans won't be able to implement them. But for those that do, they'll be able to recover the cost of this book after just a few pages. Ask yourself: Are you a cost-cutting warrior willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to save money, or are you a spendthrift Veteran who wastes money?


Zen Tennis

Zen Tennis

Author: Joe Parent

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-05-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781512346770

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The authors provide tennis players advice on staying in the mental zone in order to play their best tennis. There is emphasis on playing in the moment and bringing all available focus and practice to the game at hand.


Tennis Strategy

Tennis Strategy

Author: Grant Grinnell

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781514729717

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This (quick-fix) book gives you the tactics and mental philosophy to beat any style player, singles or doubles. The tips are pointed, cut right to the chase, are in layman's terms and summarized into powerful bullet point sections for (instant access). The book is the culmination of 38 years coaching, 50,000 hours on-court experience, years of seeking uncommon knowledge, and decades of creating the most (efficient and effective) methods to help students find their best fast! The book has 3 main sections: 1. Understanding different styles of players. 2. How to beat any style player, singles or doubles. 3. Mental toughness philosophy and mindsets. The strategy section provides potent tactics on how to beat any style player including, Singles: how to beat a big server, a great returner, aggressive baseliner, pusher, counter-puncher, hacker-slicer, and all-court player. Doubles: how to beat big serving teams, great returning teams, teams that control the net, one up one back teams, poaching teams, lobbing teams, and teams with one hot player. The mental toughness section uniquely redefines attitudes regarding winning and losing, competition, pressure, mistakes, fear, choking, and adversity to teach you how to play up to and (stretch) the upper limits of your ability. Overall, this book is tailored to save you time, improve practice sessions, free your mind and emotions from blocking the flow of your body, and give you the instantaneous tactical wisdom to consistently win!


Golden Boy

Golden Boy

Author: Larry Hodgson

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780953651641

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A biography of one of tennis' most famous figures, Lew Hoad. Taking as its starting point Pete Sampras' visible distress as he learns of the death of his idol, the book traces Hoad's progress, from humble beginnings in a Sydney Suburb to his inexorable rise to sporting legend.


Serve to Win

Serve to Win

Author: Novak Djokovic

Publisher: Zinc Ink

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0345548981

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Novak Djokovic reveals the gluten-free diet and fitness plan that transformed his health and pushed him to the pinnacle. In 2011, Novak Djokovic had what sportswriters called the greatest single season ever by a professional tennis player: He won ten titles, three Grand Slams, and forty-three consecutive matches. Remarkably, less than two years earlier, this champion could barely complete a tournament. How did a player once plagued by aches, breathing difficulties, and injuries on the court suddenly become the #1 ranked tennis player in the world? The answer is astonishing: He changed what he ate. In Serve to Win, Djokovic recounts how he survived the bombing of Belgrade, Serbia, rising from a war-torn childhood to the top tier of his sport. While Djokovic loved and craved bread and pasta, and especially the pizza at his family’s restaurant, his body simply couldn’t process wheat. Eliminating gluten—the protein found in wheat—made him feel instantly better, lighter, clearer, and quicker. As he continued to research and refine his diet, his health issues disappeared, extra pounds dropped away, and his improved physical health and mental focus allowed him to achieve his two childhood dreams: to win Wimbledon, and to become the #1 ranked tennis player in the world. Now Djokovic has created a blueprint for remaking your body and your life in just fourteen days. With weekly menus, mindful eating tips for optimal digestion, and delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes, you’ll be well on your way to shedding extra weight and finding your way to a better you. Djokovic also offers tips for eliminating stress and simple exercises to get you revved up and moving, the very same ones he does before each match. You don’t need to be a superstar athlete to start living and feeling better. With Serve to Win, a trimmer, stronger, healthier you is just two weeks away.


Tennis Confidential

Tennis Confidential

Author: Paul Fein

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1597973920

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In this outstanding collection of essays and interviews, Paul Fein takes the reader into the world of the pro tennis tour with inside scoops about the game’s greatest stars, past and present. Tennis Confidential includes interviews with such all-time greats as Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Arthur Ashe, and Jimmy Connors along with essays about the careers of other stars like Andre Agassi, the Williams sisters, Jennifer Capriati, and Anna Kournikova. Fein also reviews the careers of pioneering players like Martina Navratilova, Bjorn Borg, and Rod Laver. Tennis Confidential tackles the issues that confront the sport today, from the media’s fascination with teenage players on the women’s tour to the changes in the game caused by new racket designs and tactical innovations. Fein also reviews the ten greatest matches in tennis history. He gives fans at every level a unique perspective on the game and its history.


Four Thousand Weeks

Four Thousand Weeks

Author: Oliver Burkeman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0374715246

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Provocative and appealing . . . well worth your extremely limited time." —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.


Break Point

Break Point

Author: Vince Spadea

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1554902703

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Spadea gives a riveting and often hilarious account of the ultra-competitive world of pro tennis. Along the way, he analyses Agassi, Roddick, Federer, Navratilova, Sharapova et al in more colourful and personal terms than you've ever seen before!