Take Your Doubles Game to the Next Level!Whether you're trying to improve your doubles game or are just getting started playing tennis with a partner, The Art of Doubles is the book for you. Author Pat Blaskower is your personal coach, guiding and encouraging you and your partner to play winning tennis by showing you how to:• choose a compatible partner• determine your jobs on the court• learn poaching skills• ...

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Cycling is the most comprehensive and up-to-date cycling-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year round cycling-specific weight training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other cycling book to date has been so we...

Novak Djokovic is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Most fans are aware of his amazing accomplishments on the court, but very few are aware of his incredible upbringing and rise to fame. In order to truly understand Novak Djokovic, you must first understand where he came from. Novak Djokovic: An Unauthorized Biography explores Djokovic's upbringing, his Junior Circuit career, and details his breakthrough into professional tennis, all the way through his consecutive l...

Well-known sports journalist and writer of the #1 tennis blog on the web, TennisWorld, Peter Bodo's newest eBook is devoted to the player who holds seven Wimbledon and seventeen Grand Slam titles, Olympic gold medalist Roger Federer. With his unique insights into The Mighty Fed�s playing style, greatest rivalries, stunning winning streak (and possible decline), and even his fashion choices, Bodo chronicles the golden middle period of Federer�s career, 2006-2009. Including interviews with F...

Tennis star Rafael Nadal reveals the secrets of the sport and the inspiring stories behind his success in this riveting memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin.What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal has the answers.It begins in Mallorca, where the tight-knit Nadal family has lived for generations. Coached by his uncle Toni from the age of four and taught humility and respect by his ...

Roger Federer is not only one of the greatest tennis players ever to pick up a racket - if not the greatest - but he is one of the global icons of our time. Characterised by a mixture of passion and calmness, a fierce competitor with a regal bearing, he is both an athlete and an ambassador, a street fighter and a statesman.But who is he really? And what are the experiences and influences that have shaped him into the world figure he is today?...

The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public’s adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open, competing a...

Every golfer has left the course thinking about the short putt they missed or trying to justify their poor performance by declaring that their "head wasn't in the game." Anyone who plays golf recognizes the importance of the mental game. Mastering the skills involved in the mental game is not difficult. Golfers just need to practice as much mentally as they do physically.In an easy-to-understand format, Why Bad Golf Happens to Good People provides golfers a practical means to devel...

Do you want to attack the pin and leave yourself shorter putts?Then "Accurate Iron Play" is the Quick Guide for you. It focuses on the approach shot—what makes it different from a drive for distance—and how it enables you to zero in on your target. It looks at the techniques that improve both distance control and accuracy with your irons:** Understand the strategic choices involved in approach shots** "Hold" your wrist cock during the downswing** Avoid casting...

Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player ever, a man whose hard-nosed work ethic led to an unprecedented number one world ranking for 286 weeks, and whose prodigious talent made possible a record-setting fourteen Grand Slam titles. While his more vocal rivals sometimes grabbed the headlines, Pete always preferred to let his racket do the talking.Until now.In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people...

Most golf instruction books are written by famous performers about how they personally swing the club, and there's no doubt the better ones can be helpful-especially if you share the authors's athleticism, ambition, appetite for work, and opportunities for practice and play.This book was written by a very bright but at the time unfamous young teacher whose daily bread depended on delivering permanently decent-to-good golf games to averagly endowed people with no interest in becoming...

How far do you want to hit the ball?If you're like everybody else, your answer is "just a little farther."Then More Golf Swing Speed is the Quick Guide for you. It focuses on the downswing—how you load the shaft at the top of your backswing and unload it at impact. It helps you understand both how to make the correct moves and how to avoid the incorrect ones:** "Hold" or even increase your wrist cock during the downswing** Avoid casting from the top** ...