Game, Set and Match: Secret Weapons of the World's Top Tennis Players

by Mark Hodgkinson

Overview

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, who better to help you improve your game than the men and women who have won grand slam titles and held the world No. 1 ranking?

Taken from exclusive interviews with the legends of the sport, 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.

Covering technical, mental, tactical and physical aspects, you'll soon be serving, volleying and smashing your way to success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472905772
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	05/19/2015
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

The book is an easy read. It's a perfect companion to keep in your tennis bag to pull out in between matches or a good read to get you pumped up before that big club or USTA match.” —Examiner.com

“Whether you're a grizzled recreational player or an up-and-coming junior, you'd probably love to take lessons from tour pros. Problem is, they're pretty busy playing tournaments all over the world. That's where journalist Mark Hodgkinson comes in.” —The Oregonian

“Game, Set and Match is a book that tennis player and fans cannot afford to go without.” —Love Tennis blog

"Easy, enlightening read poolside or while you wait for your match to start." —Tennis Identity

"I have a few tennis books that I read over and over because the advice and instruction they give makes sense, is truly actionable and can make a huge positive impact on my game. I'm definitely adding Game, Set and Match: Secret Weapons of the World's Top Tennis Players to that list of books and can't wait to read it again." —Kim Selzman, Wristspect Sport

"An unprecedented collection of tips from the sport's superstars." —Northwest Akron Branch Library

From the Publisher

05/01/2015
This work sets out to be a portmanteau of useful tennis knowledge collected from successful players and coaches. Hodgkinson (Andy Murray) rather prosaically organizes his book into the usual chapters dedicated to improving technical aspects of your game such as serve, backhand, forehand, and return. He also sought advice from experts about other aspects of the game including mental toughness, equipment, avoiding injury, coaching, and sportsmanship. These snippets of advice are meant to improve the game of any weekend hacker or aspiring Wimbledon champion. VERDICT While there are several useful insights here, Hodgkinson's passages are clipped and often paraphrased so it is not clear whether he interviewed the subjects or simply found published quotes and incorporated them into the book. A useful addition would have been instructional images that demonstrate how, for example, to create the absurd topspin generated by Rafael Nadal.—Brian Renvall, Mesalands Community Coll., Tucumcari, NM

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