Game, Set and Match

Secret Weapons of the World's Top Tennis Players

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Pub Date May 19 2015 | Archive Date May 01 2015
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Sport

Description

The world’s greatest players share their top tips on how to improve your game and become a better player.

With contributions from current and past greats of tennis, including Maria Sharapova, Andy Murray, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Martina Navratilova, to name but a few, is there anything better to help you improve your game than advice from the men and women who have won Grand Slam titles and held the world's number one ranking?

Taken from exclusive interviews with the legends of the sport, you can find their collected tips and wisdom here in the ultimate tennis guide-the perfect inside edge/performance advantage for fans and players of the game.

Top tips from the pros include:
"How to disguise your serve" with Pete Sampras
"How to be mentally tough" with Maria Sharapova
"How to be a world-class coach" with Nick Bollettieri
"How to play intelligent tennis" with Agnieszka Radwanska
"How to hit your forehand flat and hard" with Tomas Berdych
"How to attack with your forehand" with Laura Robson

Fun and entertaining as well as instructive, the book also includes a section on tennis parenting, with exclusive tips from parents of the players who have reached the top of the sport.

With these technical, mental, tactical, and physical tips, you'll soon be serving, volleying, and smashing your way to success.

Mark Hodgkinson, a former tennis correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is the author of Andy Murray: Champion—The Full Extraordinary Story. Hodgkinson, who is the editor of thetennisspace.com, has written a short television feature about Wimbledon for the BBC, contributes to British GQ, and wrote the tennis features in the official program for the London 2012 Olympics.

The world’s greatest players share their top tips on how to improve your game and become a better player.

With contributions from current and past greats of tennis, including Maria Sharapova, Andy...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781472905772
PRICE $20.00 (USD)