Tennis: Histories and Mysteries
Best Sport Ever: Tennis takes readers from the beginnings of tennis to present day with a focus on the legends, the amazing stories, and the unique characteristics that makes the sport great.
Perhaps the biggest prize in tennis as a team sport is the Davis Cup . Teams from many nations compete for the Cup once a year . There are four singles and one doubles match in a Davis cup round . The country winning any three of these ...
Inside an elegant case with a ribbon enclosure, Tennis contains two volumes that offer leisure and enjoyment between matches. Nostalgia traces the story of hard court and lawn tennis from...
This book tells you all about tennis and how to develop your skills as a player.
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Tennis: With a Historical Bibliography
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Discusses the origins of tennis, its equipment, rules, scoring, and plays and includes a brief description of some tennis greats.
This book attacks these and other issues faced by players of all levels. Dr. Allen Fox’s solutions are logical and straightforward, and most importantly, they have been tested on court and they work.
In fact , the number of college graduates who have won major singles championships in the past 50 years can be counted on one hand . Television changed tennis in ways both good and bad . In 1972 , more than 50 million viewers in the ...
The Tiddling Tennis Theorem . New York : The Viking Press , 1977 . Karnowski , Frank . ... Tennis . Boston : Allyn and Bacon , Inc. , 1974 . Morton , Jason , and Russell Seymour with Clyde Burleson . Winning Tennis After Forty .
Tennis is the Game of a Lifetime. For the first time, your first 100 tennis lessons are presented in an easy to read format. Graeme Partington is an Australian tennis professional with more than 35 years of coaching experience.
... 22 ground strokes, 13 hash marks, 10 history, 6 International Tennis Federation (ITF), 6 International Tennis Hall of Fame, 18, 20 Laver, Rod, 21, 22 lobs, 13 “love,” 13 matches, 15, 16, 19, 23–24, 25 measurements, 9–10, 11, 12–13, ...
The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field Joseph M. Turrini Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890–1980 Charles H. Martin Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic ...
Demonstrates proper tennis strokes, explains strategies, and features drills for learning and developing skills according to ability level.
For long-term fuel, the body's aerobic energy system kicks in and allows tennis players to produce energy for a longer period. The aerobic energy system provides baseline energy over the length of a tennis match or practice session.
The cover painting shows an 18th-century Italian game of tennis, and the opening chapter is intriguingly subtitled "Tennis and the Devil." Gillmeister (linguistics, U. of Bonn) provides a sociohistorical survey...
Amusing and informative for readers of all ages, this compilation of tennis lore and legend was written by an undefeated Davis Cup champion.