Racquet Sports category: 291 books

In this hugely entertaining collection of stories taken from over a hundred years of world tennis history, award-winning sports historian Peter Seddon has gathered together the most extraordinary events ever to occur on a tennis court. They include the Wimbledon final between the tea-drinking vicar...

Werner Schlager stands for a successful individual and self-confident player. That is exactly what he wants to get across in his interviews: individuality, determination, endurance and the belief in yourself. Table Tennis- Tips from a World Champion is a practical training book for successful table tennis....

Global Religion brings humor smack back into the center of sport. The sport 'pie,' that goes back way beyond Homer, has many ingredients. Fun, recreation, competition, exercise, teamwork, entertainment — all play various roles in various games. Recently work, money and politics have taken...

Le Guide Suprême de l’Entrainement avec des Poids pour le Tennis est le plus complet et le plus à jour des guides d’entrainements spécifiques par sport dans le monde aujourd’hui. Ce manuel contient des descriptions et des photos de près de cent exercices d’entrainement...

Step up to table tennis success! Table Tennis: Steps to Success combines the knowledge and experience of master instructor Richard McAfee with essential table tennis techniques and strategies for today’s player. With a unique 11-step approach designed to maximize table tennis instruction, you’ll...

Anyone who has ever played table tennis can sense that the game is so much more than just hitting a ball with a paddle. Mr. Pettinelli beautifully guides us on a deep dive into the nebulous ocean of the sport, his unique insight shining a beacon on the many factors that dwell hidden beneath the surface....

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain...

The role of psychology in tennis and how to advocate its use are practiced by world-class specialists in mental preparation, coaches and tennis players. This book presents a passionate look at tennis people who are aware of this. People who constantly search for ways to work with players even as the...

“An ace of a novel, an ace of a writer.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father...

What Tennis Pros Dont Teach encompasses a World of information threading Tennis and life at work. It talks about the forces of Tennis under all different scenarios. This book is based on the love of Tennis as the foundation to tackle philosophy, mental toughness, discipline, strategy, the meaning...

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Chiunque abbia giocato a ping-pong può percepire che il gioco è molto più di un semplice colpire una palla con una racchetta. Il signor Pettinelli ci guida splendidamente attraverso un percorso sottomarino nell'oceano nebuloso di questo sport, mentre la sua visione singolare riporta alla luce...

Una apasionada biografía del mejor tenista de todos los tiempos. Enero de 2018: Roger Federer consigue su vigésimo Grand Slam, entrando así definitivamente en el Olimpo y la Historia como la gran leyenda del tenis y del deporte en general. Este libro es un recuento de los cerca de cien títulos...

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,...