$20,000
In Tennis Lessons:
Your Personal Coach

Tennis.com

After each of the group and individual tennis lessons he gave during the past 20 years, Dr. Robert Ford Greene kept a written record of the drills he used and skills he taught, eventually filling up several notebooks.

Greene, a former professional player with appearances at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and French Open, and a coach with more than 25,000 hours of teaching experience, reveals what is inside those notebooks in $20,000 In Tennis Lessons: Your Personal Coach, a valuable 288-page instructional book intended for all levels of players.

With concise explanations and color illustrations, the book summarizes the components of hitting successful ground strokes, serves, volleys, and any other shot you can think of. It includes chapters on strategy, mental toughness, and even a labeled diagram of a court and glossary of terms. $20,000 In Tennis Lessons is essentially a complete tennis encyclopedia.

Greene states the book is ideal for the beginner who cannot afford to take private lessons and must be self-taught, but it also works well for an advanced player seeking alternative instruction or for a teaching pro searching for drills or techniques to teach.

For the beginner, the first few chapters explain what goes into shot-making and why and how to practice.

If you are an intermediate or advanced player struggling with a specific area of your game, you'll find the solution (or at least several helpful suggestions) reinforced with personal experiences from Greene's own teachings.

$20,000 In Tennis Lessons works well if used as a complement to lessons or as a starting point for beginners.

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The cover of the new, inspired instructional volume $20,000 in Tennis Lessons: Your Own Personal Coach is a photo of tennis icons John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg smiling. And after you read Dr. Robert Greene's extraordinary instructional tour de force, you'll be smiling, too.

After all, in this age of underachieving efforts that disappoint, Greene (after 10 years of work, no less) delivers a lavish, wide-ranging and very colorful collection of instructional insights on every aspect of the game, from short-swing ground strokes to drop shots, to balance and sportsmanship.

$20,000 in Tennis Lessons caps off the author/teaching pro/club owner/player's celebrated 50-year career in tennis. Our favorite section reflects on tennis's most deadly sins, which range from unrealistic goals, fear (something that's been shoved down our throats of late), an obsession with winning, a preoccupation with power shots, rushed points, indecisive strategy and that old standard -- beating up on yourself. If you're looking for a wonderful instructional book that would grace any tennis library, rush out and buy Dr. Robert Greene's labor of love, $20,000 in Tennis Lessons. But we did have one beef. The info in this special book is probably worth more than 20,000 bucks.