Tennis Skills: The Player's Guide (Book) by Tom Sadzeck

This book presents an-depth look at stroke-production skills, followed by a series of drills designed and used by the pros. The author begins by breaking down each stroke into its elements to ensure a player's basic skills are strong and consistent, including warm-up, grips, body position, stroke, footwork and follow-through. Then he offers a series of more than 40 drills that focus on target areas, strategy, coordination, pressure, and footwork. Court diagrams help players visualize a stroke's outcome, and easy-to-follow sequential photos and diagrams accompany clear instruction. Action-packed, full color photos of the world's greatest professional tennis players provide inspiration and motivation. 128 pages.

Tennis Tactics: Winning Patterns Of Play (Book)

From the United States Tennis Association (USTA), with a foreword by Jim Courier Based on extensive USTA study of actual tournament play by the game's top athletes. Tennis Tactics describes 58 patterns repeated shot sequences for back court, mid-court, net play and defensive play that will emphasize your players' strengths and exploit their opponents' weaknesses. This book contains 63 drills that show your players how to practice the patterns and make them part of their routines during match play. There are twelve chapters that cover principles of pattern play, patterns of play, serve and return patterns and drills, ground stroke patterns and drills, mid-court patterns and drills, net play patterns and drills and defensive patterns and drills.

Tennis Past 50 (Book)

Tennis is indeed a true lifetime sport-just ask any tennis player over 50! However, as you get older you may need to adjust your stroke technique and strategy to stay on top of your game. Tennis Past 50 is the only book to address mature players' specific needs with proven strategies that adjust stroke technique, positioning, injuries, and equipment. Tennis Past 50 shows you how to: modify your stroke to gain more power without sacrificing control; play smarter with adjustments to position on the court and style of play; improve your doubles and mixed doubles game; choose the right equipment for your style of play, ability, and fitness level; eat right for better performance on the court; and avoid injury and improve your conditioning for better performance. Tennis Past 50 shares the winning insights and tips that the authors have learned from decades of coaching and playing. Tony Trabert was ranked No. 1 in the world in the 1950s and is a popular TV commentator, and Ron Witchey is a well-known biomechanist with a specialization in aging and tennis. Trabert and Witchey teach how to play smarter, so you can be successful without trying to run down every ball, learn how to use spin and adapt traditional shots to your advantage, and handle different playing styles of your opponents. Tennis Past 50 will provide winning instruction that will have you playing better than ever. This book will improve the game of any mature player-male or female, competitive or recreational.

Power Tennis Training (Book)

By Don Chu, Ph.D., training consultant to the United States Tennis Association Power Tennis Training 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 training blocks that each features a mix of different workouts. Using numerous illustrations to ensure correct technique, Chu demonstrates the following: exercise principles for tennis players, warm-up and stretching exercises, weight training, trunk exercises, plyometrics, medicine ball exercises, court drills, safety and injury prevention, and overall fitness and conditioning testing.

Power, Speed & Stamina For Tennis: A Complete Guide For The Player And Coach (Book)

By Gray Cook, MSPT, OCS, CSCS and Jack Thompson, Catawba College Head Coach and Director of Tennis at the Country Club of Salisbury (NC) If you are looking for an innovative, motivational, and effective conditioning program with a solid scientific base, then this program is for you. -Dr. Jeff Chandler, Director of Research and Education, Lexington Sports Medical Center As stated in the title, this is the Complete guide for Tennis player and coach. Beginning with rationale for its use, this book will take you through such areas as the role of different body parts in tennis performance, sport-specific testing for tennis, sport-specific exercises for tennis, advanced testing techniques, and advanced training techniques. This comprehensive text concludes with the results of a five week training program with male high school tennis players. Excellent! (1999, ISBN 0-7872-6263-3)

Tennis Practice Games (Book)

Tired of boring, repetitive drills? Then Tennis Practice Games provides the challenge, creativity, and fun you've been seeking on the practice court. The games-based approach will help you refine your total game, from stroke development to strategy. Through competitive situations, you'll quickly learn when to hit specific shots and what tactics to apply when the match is on the line. Tennis Practice Games features 141 games that can be adapted for various skill levels, with a wide selection for both singles and doubles play. With games that allow you to increase the difficulty for higher levels of competition, this comprehensive guide covers all the essential parts of the tennis game-shot making, footwork skills, tactics, strategy, and handling pressure. From beginning to end, it's packed with purposeful games that have proven successful with both coaches and players. A respected tennis authority and motivational speaker, Joe Dinoffer has traveled the globe, inspiring players to enjoy the game as they strive for their personal best. Now you can gain from his valuable insights. Whether you're a dedicated player or a coach looking for new ways to inspire better performance on the courts, you'll find it here in this fun and practical guide.

Maximum Tennis: 10 Keys to Unleashing Your On - Court Potential (Book)

Few players can serve like Andy Roddick or Venus Williams, and rifle returns as quickly as Andre Agassi, but all the game's elite athletes have 10 characteristics in common that enable them to play their best possible tennis. As a professional player, an elite coach, and a coach of top coaches, author Nick Saviano has seen the difference that mindset can make. Now, in Maximum Tennis , Saviano draws together the common links shared by the best players-elements you can use to reach your full potential. Play from the heart. Simplify your stroke. Focus on the elements you control. Play to your personal strengths. Maximum Tennis distills the nature of championship play into its essence, helping you play to your strengths and enjoy the game every time you step on the court. Some of the best to ever play and coach add their own examples to each of Saviano's lessons. Contributors include Jim Courier, Chris Everett, Nick Bollettieri, Billie Jean King, Stan Smith, and many more. According to Saviano, great players aren't born; they're made. In Maximum Tennis , this internationally recognized coach draws from his experience on the courts and behind the scenes with some of the sport's top names. He reveals concepts any player can learn-and every coach can teach-to help you reach your full potential and enhance your love of the game.

World-Class Tennis Technique Book (Copyright 2001, 288 pages)

Let the game's most brilliant players and coaches teach you World-Class Tennis Technique! You'll find the most up-to-date information, based on solid scientific principles and presented in a practical, easy-to-understand manner. No other book on the market offers the level of world-class instruction and expertise found here. World-Class Tennis Technique is written by some of the world's top experts in biomechanics, tennis technique, and coaching, including: Patrick McEnroe Jim Loehr Mary Joe Fernandez Stan Smith Tom Gullikson Pam Shriver Former world-class players National coaches Past or current Davis Cup Captains Together these venerable tennis pros present a detailed, comprehensive look at the optimal biomechanics and technique for playing tennis. Each chapter features an expert with a scientific or technical background matched up with one of the top internationally known coaches. They explain the modern game and share their research, knowledge, and experience. Their explanations are succinct and to the point, making the best techniques easy to learn. You'll learn to improve your technique in every aspect of the game, including: perfecting your strokes, improving your footwork and positioning, training the appropriate muscle groups, choosing the right racquet and equipment for your style of play, adjusting to different court surfaces, maintaining proper technique under pressure, and analyzing your own game. You'll find an in-depth analysis of the proper fundamentals of each stroke A<>A-- forehand, backhand, volley, overhead, serve, return, and specialty shots A<>A-- presented with an incredible selection of full-color sequence photos. Learn the science behind the strokes to hit the ball with greater force, accuracy, and consistency. Then master and fine-tune your execution to excel in competition. With World-Class Tennis Technique, you'll soon play better than ever. About the Author Vic Braden is one of the most recognized tennis instructors in the world. Braden has authored five books, produced countless videos, and hosted several television series. He is a licensed psychologist, author, sports educator and researcher, videographer, and television commentator. Braden got his start as the head tennis coach at the University of Toledo in 1952. After a stint as an elementary school teacher and psychologist, he served on the management staff of the Jack Kramer Professional Tennis Tour and co-founded the Jack Kramer Tennis Club in 1961. He founded the Vic B

Pressure Tennis Book (Copyright 2000, 216 pages)

If you are looking for a training system that prepares tennis players for the pressures of competitive match play, look no further than Pressure Tennis. This instructional book shows you how to raise the level of intensity of your practices, increasing their effectiveness and mentally toughening up your players. Tennis coach Paul Wardlaw has created and refined his extraordinary training program through his 14 successful seasons at the college level. Through his system, you will learn how to design and implement effective practice sessions using pressure drills that simulate match-like conditions. Pressure Tennis will also demonstrate how you can help your players develop: high-percentage tactics; aggressive court position; varied, intelligent shot selection; and better court coverage and anticipation of the opponent's shot. Within the first week or two of use, the system improves concentration, motivation, confidence, and conditioning. More important, players develop a resilience to match-play pressure and welcome the challenge of even the toughest opponent. To help evaluate progress, Wardlaw has included a novel Performance Index that provides coaches with a more objective measure of each player's execution, effort, and ranking on the team. Whether you're a player or a coach, you'll want Pressure Tennis for the blueprint it provides for enhancing mental toughness. About the Author Paul Wardlaw has worked his way up to the top of the tennis coaching ranks. In the early 1990s, he turned Division III Kenyon College into a national powerhouse, leading them to three NCAA National Team Championships. In recognition of his outstanding coaching skills, Wardlaw received the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association's National Coach of the Year Award. Wardlaw then turned his attention to the University of Iowa women's tennis program. In only two short years as head coach, he increased the team's standing to its highest ranking ever and led them to their first NCAA tournament bid and a trip to the Sweet 16. Wardlaw has written The Wardlaw Directionals, which appeared in the book Coaching Tennis and will be featured in the upcoming Human Kinetics video High-Percentage Tennis. He resides in Iowa City with his wife and two daughters. Table of Contents Chapter 1. Winning Principles of Tennis Performance Chapter 2. Putting Pressure Into Practices Chapter 3. High-Percentage Shot making Chapter 4. Court Position and Shot Selection Chapter 5. Teaching Tactics Ch

Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook Book (Copyright 2001, 456 pages)

Now you can work with the world's top coach, learning from Nick Bollettieri's anecdotes and insights into the game with Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook. Bollettieri's training and development system is recognized around the world as one of the best. He has worked with many of world's top players, including Andre Agassi, Venus and Serena Williams, Boris Becker, Mary Pierce, and Jim Courier. Starting with the fundamentals, you'll learn how to choose the right grip and build a strong foundation with posture and stance. Every shot is addressed A<>A-- forehand and backhand, serves and return of serve, and specialty shots like the overhead and lob. You'll get lessons on conditioning and mental training, then learn the game plans and strategies to make you a champion. A chapter on choosing and stringing the perfect racket is also included. Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook offers you unmatched insight into the world's top tennis development program from the man who started it all. Bollettieri covers everything from skill development and stroke techniques to his ideas on coaching and practicing. Bollettieri's Tennis Handbook is perfect for every dedicated player or coach and the insights into the game are as engaging as Bollettieri himself. About the Author Nick Bollettieri is the most well-known and successful tennis coach in the world today, and his training program is recognized as one of the best systems for developing top players. He has trained and coached some of the world's top players including Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Anna Kournikova, Jim Courier, Tommy Haas, Mary Pierce, and Boris Becker. Bollettieri has built one of the best training facilities in the world, the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, which he founded in 1977. Today the Bollettieri Tennis Academy covers 158 acres and has grown into the most successful and diversified multi-sport training complex in the world. The success of his academy can be seen in the success of his students. Bollettieri started out as a club tennis coach in the 1950s and once worked as a private coach for the Rockefeller family while serving as the director of tennis for all Rockefeller-owned hotels and resorts. He founded his first tennis academy, the Port Washington Tennis Academy on Long Island, New York, in 1969. In 1999 the United States Tennis Association (USTA) named Nick Bollettieri the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) National Coach of the Year. He is a regular contributor to Tennis Magazine. Bollettieri resid

Coaching Tennis Successfully (Book)

From the United States Tennis Association, with a foreword by Stan Smith Coaches of championship high school tennis teams and sport science experts at the USTA team up to give coaches cutting-edge advice on: developing a coaching philosophy, communicating with your players, planning practices, evaluating each season in preparation for the next year, implementing singles and doubles strategies, and teaching key coaching concepts for all of the strokes. Coaches will find information on application of grips to strokes, the principles behind high-percentage singles and doubles play, specific responsibilities of doubles players, doubles drills, 42 practical drills for coaching stroke fundamentals, and more!