Whether you’re new to the game or have been playing for years, the following books are invaluable resources for learning more about the origins of our sport and for providing detailed accounts of more recent years in tennis. With ancient forms of the game dating back thousands of years, tennis has a rich and storied history that has been captured thoughtfully by only a handful of books.Īs avid tennis players, we have a great appreciation for our sport, and these books have provided us with meaningful opportunities to expand our knowledge and enjoyment of the game. If you love the sport, you’ll most likely enjoy learning all the nuances and technicalities, and you’ll be a better tennis player for it. If you haven’t had the opportunity to read through the most relevant rulebook for you, I’d highly suggest you do it at some point.
In this section, we cover a wide range of rulebooks per the different governing bodies in tennis, including the USTA, ITF, ATP, WTA, and ITA.
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After all, if you don’t know how to handle a specific scenario, you may give up a point unnecessarily.įor example, if your hat falls out of bounds during a point, and your opponent’s shot hits your hat, who wins the point? I guess you’ll have to do some reading to find out.
However, in my experience, few players take the time to thoroughly read the rule books, which can put you at a disadvantage, particularly in competition. For many players, the rules of tennis are learned slowly over time through tennis lessons, practice, and competition. In tennis or any sport, understanding the rules of the game is fundamentally important to ensure you’re playing accurately and fairly. Tennis For Dummies by Patrick McEnroe, Peter Bodoīelow you’ll find an overview of the categories of books we cover – click any of them to jump to that section of the article or keep scrolling to browse them all. Tennis Fitness for the Love of It by Suzanna McGeeĬomplete Conditioning for Tennis by Paul Roetert Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert, Steve JamisonĪ Terrible Splendor by Marshall Jon Fisher If you’re in a rush or looking for the cream of the crop, then this section is for you. With 120 books on our list, there’s a lot to look through, so we’ve hand-picked 15 of the greatest tennis books that stand out from the crowd. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of the best tennis books ever written by the biggest names in our sport, and organized them so you can quickly find a book you’ll love.Īt the time of creating this resource, every book on this list had terrific reviews, and many sit on our bookshelf, so we’re confident you’ll find a book that you enjoy. Luckily, she did.If you’re looking for a new tennis book, then you’ve come to the right place. So I leaned across and asked her if she spoke English. ‘I didn’t know what to do,’ he recalled. ‘But I noticed this nice looking girl stuck in her car right next to me. Turning onto the Champs Elysees, he got stuck in the inevitable New Year’s Eve traffic jam. A year later, at 11.51 on 31 December 1981 to be precise, fate took hold of his life. So in 1980, leaving his family behind, Bahrami fled to Paris, speaking only English and Farsi. ‘But I had a friend called Reza who knew someone high up in the Iranian Government, and I got a visa to travel to France and Switzerland.’ ‘I didn’t know what I was going to do,’ Bahrami told me when we recalled those dramatic days in Iran’s history in a recent phone conversation. ‘Yes, please,’ I said quickly, and within a few minutes a remarkably unruffled Mansour appeared, picked up his tennis bag and went straight off to the Ghezira Club to practise. He needed to stretch his legs.īahrami was still playing under the Iranian flag at that time, but all that changed three years later when, in 1979, the Shah was ousted and tennis was banned by the new Islamic regime in Tehran which considered it an American capitalist sport. I think I used the art of friendly persuasion rather than an outright bribe on a friendly Sudanese doctor to get the certificate before flying up to Cairo, so I was well equipped when the Egyptian immigration official looked down his list of detainees and said, ‘Ah yes, Bahrami.
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