Download or read book WILD CARD TENNIS STORIES written by Drazen Prcic and published by Drazen Prcic. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Card written by Judy Murray and published by Orion. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Come on, it's a tennis story! How can I not love it?! Abi's coming back in her 30s - oh my god, are you kidding? I love it!' BILLIE JEAN KING 'Utterly thrilling and joyful. I couldn't put it down!' ANTON DU BEKE 'Enthralling and captivating. Absolutely loved it!' CAROL KIRKWOOD 'A stunning debut, this is the perfect summer read' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'Fizzing with excitement and high stakes' JO THOMAS 'Absolutely fantastic' CHRIS EVANS It's never too late to follow your dreams... Twenty years ago, Abigail Patterson put her promising tennis career on hold to have her baby son, Robbie. But after a wild card entry to Wimbledon, she suddenly finds herself swept up in a world she thought she'd left behind - and against all odds, she's winning! Yet as those long-buried dreams of lifting the sparkling silver trophy on centre court inch closer, Abi knows that it's only a matter of time before the press start digging into her past and uncover the secret she's kept hidden for so long. The stakes are raised, but this time nothing - and no one - is going to stand in her way. But could the greatest comeback of all time destroy everything she's sacrificed to protect? Praise for The Wild Card: 'A pacey page-turner' THE TIMES 'Full of twists and turns. We loved it!' HEAT 'A brilliant read' BELLA 'A high-stakes novel set in the world she knows best' The i
Download or read book Australia s Grand Slam Tennis Champions written by John Coomer and published by JC Editorial. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia has a proud history on the world tennis stage. From pioneers like Jack Crawford, Nancye Wynne (Bolton) and Frank Sedgman, through the golden era of champions like Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Margaret Smith (Court) and John Newcombe, and on to more recent success stories like those of Ash Barty and Dylan Alcott. This book highlights the achievements of every Australian champion in singles and doubles at the 4 Grand Slam events in world tennis – Wimbledon and the Australian, French and US Opens – along with all the near misses by Aussie players who have finished as runners-up at those prestigious events. It’s a must-read for any Aussie tennis fan.
Download or read book Wild Card written by Laura Siegemund and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure, stress, and the threat of losing control all have the power to inhibit a tennis player's professional, athletic, and sometimes even everyday performance. How can the athlete manage these challenges? Wild Card is the must-have guide for navigating these difficult moments. Though targeted specifically at the elite tennis player, it appeals to any athlete who has the ambition to perform at their best, who faces extreme challenges and wants to master them. An athlete can even go so far as to apply these mental strategies to life's daily challenges. Written from the perspective of world-class tennis player, Laura Siegemund, this guide equips the athlete with the tools to develop concentration, focus, resilience, the ability to handle mistakes, and self-regulation—all that the high-performance athlete needs to master the mental game. Guiding the reader through the highs and lows of a match, even an entire tournament, Laura Siegemund provides insight into extreme mental game situations and their complexity and resolves these situations together with mental coach and sports scientist, Prof. Dr. Stefan Brunner. With this book, the athlete will feel empowered to win match point after match point—in tennis, in sports, and in life!
Download or read book Wild Card written by Laura Siegemund and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure, stress, and the threat of losing control all have the power to inhibit a tennis player's professional, athletic, and sometimes even everyday performance. How can the athlete manage these challenges? Wild Card is the must-have guide for navigating these difficult moments. Though targeted specifically at the elite tennis player, it appeals to any athlete who has the ambition to perform at their best, who faces extreme challenges and wants to master them. An athlete can even go so far as to apply these mental strategies to life's daily challenges. Written from the perspective of world-class tennis player, Laura Siegemund, this guide equips the athlete with the tools to develop concentration, focus, resilience, the ability to handle mistakes, and self-regulation—all that the high-performance athlete needs to master the mental game. Guiding the reader through the highs and lows of a match, even an entire tournament, Laura Siegemund provides insight into extreme mental game situations and their complexity and resolves these situations together with mental coach and sports scientist, Prof. Dr. Stefan Brunner. With this book, the athlete will feel empowered to win match point after match point—in tennis, in sports, and in life!
Download or read book Understanding Tennis written by Julia Hickey and published by Coachwise 1st4sport. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with information about tennis to help you, or anyone with an interest in tennis, demystify the sport and make learning about it fun. This book features chapters on what you need to play tennis, the laws of the game, singles and doubles matches, skills and more.
Download or read book Seeing Serena written by Gerald Marzorati and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying meditation” (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women’s tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and—by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others—changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams’s influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter—from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women’s tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators—and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically—reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an “enlightening…keen analysis” (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.
Download or read book Wild Card written by Laura Siegemund and published by . This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure, stress, and the threat of losing control all have the power to inhibit a tennis player's professional, athletic, and sometimes even everyday performance. How can the athlete manage these challenges? Wild Card is the must-have guide for navigating these difficult moments. Though targeted specifically at the elite tennis player, it appeals to any athlete who has the ambition to perform at their best, who faces extreme challenges and wants to master them. Written from the perspective of world-class tennis player, Laura Siegemund, this guide equips the athlete with the tools to develop concentration, focus, resilience, the ability to handle mistakes, and self-regulation--all that the high-performance athlete needs to master the mental game. Guiding the reader through the highs and lows of a match, even an entire tournament, Laura Siegemund provides insight into extreme mental game situations and their complexity and resolves these situations together with mental coach and sports scientist, Prof. Dr. Stefan Brunner. With this book, the reader will feel empowered to win match point after match point.
Download or read book Lilly s Story written by RL Monsheimer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilly Jarman comes from a small town in rural Virginia not the likely home of a tennis professional. Lilly is Eurasian and overcomes prejudice and isolation in her hometown. Because of her family income and costs of supporting 2 children in different sports, the family can not afford the training facilites that most junior tennis players leaving a difficult road to get recruited to college and the tour. The book takes you though not only the miracle of qualifying for the US Open and then making it to the round of 16, then the journey throughout the next year as she rises int he ranks of tennis. With her coaches who support her from her part-time coach Paul, to her final coach Johan, Lilly takes coaching to succeed where nobody saw it possible. Lilly represents both athleticism and being feminine, as her colors represented and it is actually that saying that is the key to her later success. With the aide of her good friend Anita not only does she share a major title, she also shares the same family as both fall in love with the Wilson brothers and propose to the 2 tennis professionals in a similar manner publicly. In the end Lilly overcomes all the obstacles and succeeds in all areas of her life, and her success that she assumed would only be about tennis ends up be aiding other young girls to be able to play tennis through a foundation that supports junior tennis players needing funding for travels. The Foundation comes from her Grandmothers saying of Athletic and Feminine, that she told Lilly she represented at an early age.
Download or read book Courting Fame written by Karen Stabiner and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author is an alumna of Evanston Township High School, class of 1967.
Download or read book The Joe O Loughlin Complete Collection written by Michael Robotham and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 3838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE COMPLETE NINE-BOOK JOE O'LOUGHLIN SERIES BY MASTER OF SUSPENSE MICHAEL ROBOTHAM. NOW A MAJOR ITV SERIES STARRING AIDAN TURNER. The Suspect Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have it all, but a perfect life is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in a complex web of deceit, he embarks upon a search that will take him into the darkest recesses of the human mind. The Drowning Man Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames. But when he awakes from his coma, the nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him . . . Shatter A naked woman is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge weeping into a mobile phone. Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down, but she jumps. Her daughter refuses to believe that her mother would have committed suicide. But what would drive a woman to such a desperate act? Bleed for Me Ray Hegarty, a respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a shocking conclusion. The Wreckage In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend but wakes next morning to find that he's been set up and robbed. As he tracks down the thieves, he discovers the boyfriend's tortured body and learns that powerful men are looking for the girl. What did Holly Knight steal that is so important to them? Say You're Sorry When Piper and her friend Tash disappeared, there was a huge police search, but they were never found. Abducted, hidden, and abused, Tash eventually escapes her captor, and Joe O'Loughlin and ex-cop Vincent Ruiz uncover chilling evidence that forces the police to re-open the case. But they are racing against time to save Piper from an abductor with an evil, calculating and twisted mind. Watching You Marnie Logan's husband has been missing for more than a year, and she's being watched. Depressed and desperate, she seeks the help of Joe O'Loughlin. Then Marnie discovers a book her husband was preparing for her birthday. It was supposed to be a celebration of her life. But it's not the story anyone was expecting . . . Close Your Eyes A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty. With no shortage of suspects, Joe discovers a links between these murders and a series of brutal attacks, but soon his fate, and that of those closest to him, become intertwined with a merciless, unpredictable killer . . . The Other Wife Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been happily married for sixty years. This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe's father is brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William's bedside, covered in his blood - a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer? Praise for the Joe O'Loughlin series 'It really was impossible to put down' Stephen King 'Will have you turning the pages compulsively, desperate to get to the end' The Times 'I have seldom read a more chilling and suspenseful tale' David Baldacci 'Superbly constructed . . . A breathtaking twist' Daily Mail 'A white-knuckle ride' Andy McNab
Download or read book Charging the Net written by Cecil Harris and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of African Americans in tennis.
Download or read book Bibi s Got Game written by Bianca Andreescu and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first picture book written by and based on real-life tennis star Bianca Andreescu, a young athlete learns how to work through life's toughest moments through inner strength and meditation. From the moment she wakes up, Bibi is very busy. Even before school begins, there are cartwheels to do, world records to break (38 minutes balancing a spoon on your nose), and her dog, Coco, to snuggle. Bibi's mother suggests she try a sport, but nothing feels right. Until she tries tennis. On the court, she feels strong and powerful. Her serve is like lightning, her backhand booms like thunder and her forehand is as fierce as a hurricane. But one day, everything changes when she is injured on the playground. Bibi is heartbroken, sad, frustrated and angry — she decides to quit tennis! But her mother, with a little help from Coco, shows her how to meditate and dispel the self-doubt and negativity. Bibi learns to focus on all the things that make her grateful and happy. And when her body is ready to go back to tennis, so is her mind. "Now every morning, I picture myself strong and powerful on the court. Just me and the fuzzy ball."
Download or read book The Roger Federer Story written by Rene Stauffer and published by New Chapter Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded by many as the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport, this authoritative biography is based on many exclusive interviews with Federer and his family as well as the author's experience covering the international tennis circuit for many years. Completely comprehensive, it provides an informed account of the Swiss tennis star from his early days as a temperamental player on the junior circuit, through his early professional career, to his winning major tennis tournaments, including the U.S. Open and Wimbledon. Readers will appreciate the anecdotes about his early years, revel in the insider's view of the professional tennis circuit, and be inspired by this champion's rise to the top of his game.
Download or read book The Other Wife written by Michael Robotham and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth thriller in the Joe O'Loughlin series, the inspiration for the major ITV series The Suspect starring Aidan Turner. 'Superbly constructed . . . a breathtaking twist' Daily Mail Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong. This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William's bedside, covered in his blood - a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer? Against the advice of the police, Joe launches his own investigation. As he learns more, he discovers sides to his father he never knew - and is forcibly reminded that the truth comes at a price. Although the Joe O'Loughlin books can be read in any order, The Other Wife is the ninth in the series after Close Your Eyes. And don't miss Michael Robotham's new #1 bestselling Cyrus Haven & Evie Cormac series, beginning with Good Girl, Bad Girl. Praise for Michael Robotham's thrillers: 'I love this guy's books' Lee Child 'Will have you turning the pages compulsively' The Times 'An absolute master' Stephen King 'He writes in a voice with a haunting sense of soul' Peter James 'Heart-stopping and heart-breaking' Val McDermid 'The real deal' David Baldacci 'Superbly exciting . . . a terrific read' Guardian
Download or read book The Wimbledon Miscellany written by Spencer Vignes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know that the UK goes crazy during Wimbledon fortnight. In fact so much seems to be packed into those two weeks that Spencer Vignes collected the most interesting aspects of the tournament into a fun, accessible book. The Wimbledon Miscellany is essential reading for all tennis enthusiasts. Full of wacky facts, curious history, famous games, charismatic personalities and bizarre lists, those with a passion for tennis are sure to find it engrossing reading. With a heritage of more than 130 years, there are plenty of untold Wimbledon stories to be revealed, as well as unusual statistics, humorous quotes and all the goings-on from Centre Court and beyond. This is the perfect companion for all tennis spectators during those interminable rain delays!
Download or read book Knowing the Score written by Judy Murray and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunday Times bestseller Judy Murray provides the ultimate insight into life with her tennis champion sons Andy and Jamie. What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first? As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round can-do woman of wonder, Judy Murray is the ultimate role model for believing in yourself and reaching out to ambition. As a parent, coach, leader, she is an inspiration who has revolutionised British tennis. From the soggy community courts of Dunblane to the white heat of Centre Court at Wimbledon, Judy Murray’s extraordinary memoir charts the challenges she has faced, from desperate finances and growing pains to entrenched sexism. We all need a story of ‘yes we can’ to make us believe great things are possible. This is that story. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award ‘Quite simply, she is inspirational, passionate and great fun’ Observer
