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Advanced Techniques for Competitive Tennis
Richard Schonbron coached the young Steffi Graf and Boris Becker. Aimed at tennis coaches who want to concentrate on technique, this book presents his experience of both learning and teaching modern techniques.
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Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook
Nick Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook
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Playing great tennis Nick Bollettieri's Mental Efficiency Program for Playing Great Tennis
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Competitive Tennis

This guide allows players to gauge their skill level, understand what determines their National Tennis Rating Program (NTRP) rating, and learn skills and strategies for improvement. It presents 56 drills designed to help players progress to the next NTRP level.
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Competitive Tennis for Younger Players
In this book Manfred Grosser and Richard Schonborn describe an ideal development from a childhood to a world-class player in tennis, giving a volume of advice for coaches, officials, parents and young players. On the basis of biological and scientific experiences and realizations over several decades, it is possible to show the way to reach this long-term goal. This way is described in detail in the book.
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Competitive Tennis for Younger Players

Complete Conditioning for Tennis
This guide presents ways of improving tennis skills through conditioning on and off the court. It explains which exercises to do, how to do them, and how each one translates to better performance on the tennis court. Coverage includes stretching, and aerobic and strength-training exercise.
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Complete Conditioning for Tennis

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tennis
From understanding the basic rules, buying equipment and getting into shape to learning how to hit backhands and forehands, this idiot-proof guide shows how to serve up aces and plan aggressive strategies in no time. It also contains anecdotes on tennis greats past and present.
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Idiots Guide to Tennis

DK101 Essential Tips: Tennis
This pocket-sized book offers practical advice on tennis, with step-by-step photographs and clear text to illustrate 101 ideas.
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101 Essential Tennis Tips

Focused for Tennis

This work explains the "3 Rs" mental training system developed by Karl Slaikeu. It reveals the thought processes used by tennis champions, including Hingis, Graff, McEnroe, Chang and Seles, to get into and stay in a positive mental and emotional zone throughout a match.
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Focussed for Tennis
Game, Set & Match: A Tennis Book for the Mind
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Game Set & Match

Group Tennis Drills for Competitive Players
A collection of drills for advanced tennis players, dealing with the 5 game situations.
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Holding Serve: Persevering on and Off the Court
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High Tech Tennis

Jack Groppel is chairman of the United States Tennis Association's National Sport Science Committee. In this revised and expanded edition he shows players of all levels how to apply the same scientific principles used on the court by all of the great players, regardless of their styles of execution. The book is easy to read, fully illustrated and includes instructional cues that highlight the concepts presented for quick reference during practice.
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High Tech Tennis

I Know Absolutely Nothing about Tennis
An excellent book for beginners, this book looks at the history of tennis, and offers valuable advice on learning to play.

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I know absolutely nothing about tennis

Improve your Tennis IQ
This self-help guide for tennis players who want to improve their games is divided into easy-to-read sections with handy cross-references to help find a particular question and probable answer.
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The Inner Game of Tennis
The Inner Game of Tennis is that which takes place in our mind, played against such elusive opponents as nervousness, self-doubt and lapses of concentration. It is a game played by our mind against its own bad habits. Replacing one pattern of behaviour with a new, a more positive one is the purpose of the "Inner Game".
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Lifetime Treasury of
Tested Tennis Tips

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Net Flex: 10 Minutes a Day to Better Play
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Maximum Tennis: 10 Keys to Unleashing your On-Court potential
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Maximum Tennis

Power Tennis Training
This text shows players at all levels how to put more power into their game. It combines a variety of training methods specifically designed to increase tennis players' endurance, strengthen the muscles they use most often and enhance their speed. These methods are integrated into three blocks.
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Power Tennis Training

Pressure Tennis
This volume takes players and coaches through every facet of author Paul Wardlaw's practice system, from mental toughness training to the demanding drills. Within the first week or two of use, the system raises players' levels of concentration, motivation, confidence and conditioning. More importantly, players develop a resilience to match-play pressure and welcome the challenge of even the toughest opponent.
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Pressure Tennis

Professional Tennis Drills:
75 Drills to Perfect your Strokes, Footwork, Conditioning, Courtwork and Strategy
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A very helpfull book for beginners, intermediate and advanced tennis coaches
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Professional Tennis Drills

Real Spin on Tennis
By the time you've finished reading this informative book, you'll know how to: self-regulate your game; analyse your opponent so you can adjust your game accordingly; develop your confidence so that you'll play your best under pressure; visualise exactly how you want to play, and then make that vision a reality.
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Real Spin on Tennis

Smart Tennis - How to win the mental game

Smart Tennis is the secret weapon that tucks into your tennis bag. Apply the proven principles of sport psychology in your game and gain a winning advantage both on and off the courts.
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Smart Tennis - Play & win the mental game

Stan Smith's Winning Doubles
Stan Smith, former top-ranked player, teaches every aspect of high-level doubles strategy. From selecting a partner to tailoring stoke technique to adding new drills to make practice sessions more effective, Smith guides double players in all aspects of their game.
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Stan Smith's Winning Doubles

Strokes & Strategies for Tennis
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Strokes & Strategies for Tennis

Super.Activ Tennis
A practical guide to playing tennis. It describes the many skills and tactics involved in easy-to-follow steps supported by illustrations. The different techniques for playing singles and doubles are explained, together with guidance on playing specific shots.
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Super Active Tennis

Tennis
Provides basic descriptions of tennis skills complete with new photos, diagrams, and illustrations to help students master the fundamentals and build skills. Presents a condensation and interpretation of the written and unwritten rules including recent changes to give students a thorough working knowledge of the sport.
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Tennis

Tennis
This text is part of a series of instructional sports books written by some of the country's leading sports coaches. This title, from two LTA coaches, covers the basic skills and strokes of tennis. It explores the principles behind practice and improvement, and includes useful fault correction charts, as well as tactics, mental attitude, and the practical aspects of clubs, coaching and competit
ion.
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Tennis

Tennis Anyone?
Written by Dick Gould, the most successful coach in the history of intercollegiate tennis, this text provides students with the same proven step-by-step instruction Gould uses in his tennis classes at Stanford. The instruction is useful to players of all levels, and is reinforced by hundreds of photos.
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Tennis Anyone

Tennis Course
Volume 1:
Techniques & Tactics
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Tennis Course Volume 1 Tennis Course
Volume 2:
Lessons & Training
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Tennis Course Volume 2

Tennis for Dummies
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, balls, nets and court surfaces. The text is filled with expert tips and side-bars from some of the most famous names in tennis.
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Tennis for Dummies

Tennis for the Experienced Player
With emphasis on strategy and mental preparation, this rewritten edition allows the experienced player to refine skills and significantly improve performance. Action photographs help to provide a mental image of the execution of those skills.
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Tennis Injury Handbook :
Professional Advice to Amateur Athletes
For many tennis players, this definitive handbook on tennis fitness is indispensable. Featuring hundreds of expert tips on conditioning, nutrition, injury prevention, and emergency care, the Tennis Injury Handbook enables players of all ages and skill levels to customize a step-by-step stretching and strengthening program that suits their particular needs.
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The Tennis Injury Handbook

Tennis Skills
Provides an in-depth look at drills designed and used by tennis pros, aided by court diagrams to help visualze a stroke's outcome, sequential photographs, tips, and professional advice.
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Tennis Skills

Tennis: Steps to Success
This book aims to make learning the basic skills and strategies of tennis easier. The book includes 128 illustrations that show players proper tennis strokes and strategies and more than 100 drills to help them develop their game. Each drill comes with instructions that explain how to either increase or decrease the difficulty of the drill according to ability level.
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Tennis Steps

Tennis: Strokes for Success

This book is perfect for the beginner and expert alike. It starts off by reviewing the basic strokes, and then goes into details like startegy, competion, and even pschology. Overall an excellent tennis primer.
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Tennis Strokes

Tennis Tactics - Winning Patterns of Play
Tennis Tactics presents 58 strategic shot sequences to maximise your strengths and exploit your opponents' weaknesses. The book includes 63 drills that show you how to practice the shot patterns and make them part of your tactical approach in match play. By improving your shot making and decision making, you'll hit more winners than ever!
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Tennis Tactics

The Tennis Workshop
A comprehensive manual on all aspects of the game of lawn tennis for players, coaches and officials. After an introduction to the sport and its basic procedure there follows a practical guide to modern equipment and clothing. The core of the book explains technique and tactics in detail, demonstrated in sequence photographs of Jo Durie and Clare Wood. There are separate sections on coaching, the mental approach, training and injury, doubles and short tennis, and expert advice on sports movement, umpiring and turning professional. Alan Jones is a former LTA National Coach, and one of the game's most respected teachers. He currently coaches Jo Durie and Jeremy Bates.
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The Way to Play
A guide to making tennis more fun to learn, using mini-tennis as a starting point but moving on to outline plans for tennis coaches and aiming to encourage players not only to start playing tennis, but to stay playing it.
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Think to Win : The Strategic Dimension of Tennis
Provides advice on applying strategic considerations to strokes, spin, lobs, serves, and other aspects of the game.
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Think to Win

Ultimate Tennis
"Ultimate Tennis is an important instructional book filled with insight, wisdom, and humour. This charming book will inspire the novice as well as educate the advanced player. Al Secunda's feeling approach to learning offers players at all levels new and valuable information for improving their games.
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Ultimate Tennis

Vision Tennis :
A Story That Teaches the Secrets of Mental Toughness

An Easy to read book about improving your competitiveness in tennis.
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Vision Tennis

Visual Tennis
This volume presents over 200 photographs, including some of the game's stars - Pete Sampras, Martina Hingis, and Steffi Graf - to imprint images of proper technique into the minds of tennis players. These images should provide effective, internal feedback for stroke development and improvement.
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Visual Tennis

Winning Doubles : Strategies, Key Concepts, and Shot-By-Shot Playbook for Players at All Levels

Examines the key elements of the doubles game, and offers techniques and strategies for winning.
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Winning Doubles

Winning Ugly
Nothing ugly about this book. A direct pipeline into the mind of a tennis champ. How (and why) to prepare for a match, how to assess and exploit your opponent's weaknesses, how to learn from your opponents, even what you should pack in your tennis bag, it's all here
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Winning Ugly

World Class Tennis Technique
This book presents a detailed analysis of optimal technique for all the essential strokes. It also covers every aspect of the game as it relates to technique, from racquets and equipment to court surfaces, and physical and mental training. Each chapter features a technical expert and a top coach and the strokes are presented in full colour sequence photographs.
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World Class Tennis Technique

Youth Tennis
Youth Tennis is another great book from the author of Coaching Tennis, Total Tennis Training, and Winning Tennis, Chuck Kriese. This book provides all that a beginning player needs to know about improving thier game.
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Youth Tennis

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