Racquet Sports category: 291 books
Ways of Grace
Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us Together
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Inspired by Arthur Ashe’s bestselling memoir Days of Grace, a collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts of grace from across the sports world that have helped to bridge cultural and racial divides.
Like many people of color, James Blake has experienced the effects...
Change Your Grip on Life Through Tennis
A Player's Physical, Mental, Technical, & Nutritional Guide for Improving Your Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
After 25 years of playing tennis and learning new strokes and strategies, Carmen Micsa realized that whether someone plays tennis, runs, hikes, or walks, there is a strong connection between the physical and spiritual side of sports. Her fresh approach to fitness, spirituality, and the mental toughness...
Federer and Me
A Story of Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In this wildly entertaining and informative memoir reminiscent of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch—but set in the world of tennis—one man recounts his all-consuming obsession with Roger Federer and delves into the fascinating history of professional sports and fandom.
For much of the past decade,...
On Tennis
Five Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
David Foster Wallace's extraordinary writing on tennis, collected for the first time in an exclusive digital-original edition.
A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS...
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Master your game from the inside out!
With more than 800,000 copies sold since it was first published thirty years ago, this phenomenally successful guide has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Not just for tennis players, or even just for athletes in general, this handbook...
Roger Federer
The Man, The Matches, The Rivals
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
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 six Wimbledon titles and countless others, Olympic gold medalist Roger Federer. With his unique insights into The Mighty Fed’s playing style, greatest...
A Different Kind of Daughter
The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Amazon Best Book of the Month
"Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood." --Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains...
Love Game
A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best players with...
by David Horne
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
You are about to discover how you can attain a Winning Mindset that will catapult your tennis game to the next level! If you want to reach your full-potential and win more tennis matches then this could be the most important eBook you have ever read. The 'Winning Mindset' system for tennis...
Sloane Stephens: A Children's Biography
SportStars Volume 7
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Against unbelievable odds, Sloane Stephens rebounded from a serious injury to win the 2017 US Open.
Her astounding comeback stunned and captivated the sports world. Now young readers can learn all about the newest superstar of tennis.
Filled with exciting photographs, Sloane Stephens: A Children’s...
Badminton
Technique, Tactics, Training
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Crowood Sports Guide are superbly designed full colour paperbacks providing sound practical advice that will help make you a better player whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques and tactics or reviewing the fundaments of your game. Badminton - Crowood Sports...
by John Beddington
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Play Better Squash is the ideal book for everyone who plays, or wants to play, squash. How to play the strokes ... where to place the ball ... tactics and practice ... court behaviour ... fitness and training ... marking and refereeing. With helpful diagrams throughout, this instructional guide also...
Unstoppable
My Life So Far
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
From Maria Sharapova, **one of our fiercest female athletes, the captivating—**and candid—story of her rise from nowhere to tennis stardom, and the unending fight to stay on top.
In 2004, in a stunning upset against the two-time defending champion Serena Williams, seventeen-year-old Maria...
A Terrible Splendor
Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductively handsome Baron Gottfried von Cramm. This deciding 1937 Davis Cup match, played on the hallowed grounds of Wimbledon, was a battle of titans: the world's...