Tennis Made Easy: Essential Strokes & Strategies for the Modern Game

Description

Accessible and concise, this informative guide offers helpful advice for tennis players to improve their skills and their game. Offering sensible instruction drawn from 30 years of coaching, expert techniques are explained in a clear, jargon-free format. Effective for tennis players at all levels, this valuable handbook includes a wealth of tactics, strategies, and definitions, making it perfectly suited for beginners to the sport. Integrating productive and enjoyable practice drills, a wide range of topics are explored--gripping the racket, making a killer serve, positioning, pressuring the opponent, and how to play singles or doubles. Clear information on choosing equipment and deciding what to pack in a tennis bag is also included.

Kelly Gunterman is a tennis instructor and has trained over 20,000 people during a 30 year career. He founded the Gunterman Tennis Schools, which have been listed in the "Top 25 Adult Tennis Schools in North America" by Tennis Magazine. He is also the founder of Tennis Without Borders, a not-for-profit organidation that offers scholarships and assistance with school fees to young tennis students in developing countries. He lives in Fernandina Beach, Florida.