Since 1986, the BrainPower Tennis Course has been taught at colleges and universities and used by thousands of players and teaching professionals around the world. It is a revolutionary advance in tennis education for players at all levels.
The course is timeless.
It features 25 BrainPower Tennis lessons written in plain language. Each lesson covers one complete part of the game with easy to remember instructions to put into instant use on the tennis court. 500 beautiful drawings clearly illustrate how to avoid errors, make strokes correctly, cover the court, and choose the best tactics and strategies. Important insights are provided about the psychology of the game and how to overcome your five enemies: anxiety, tentativeness, tightness, hurrying, and fear.
Simple methods are presented for improving your concentration. An entire lesson is devoted to Match Preparation in order to program yourself systematically before going out to play. A comprehensive Table of Contents enables you to easily look up solutions to the problems you encountered while playing. The built in search engine gives you instant access to any word or concept relating to the game.
The BrainPower Tennis Course is everything you’ll ever need to know about playing better tennis. It is the most useful Tennis Course ever developed... more useful and easier to use than any video.
With BrainPower Tennis you will always improve your game!
“I have never enjoyed tennis as much as I have since I read this book. It tells you exactly what you need to work on to develop a set of reliable, accurate, and powerful strokes. With Victor Tantalo’s advice in the back of my mind, I feel I improve every time I play.” - David Layzer, Ph.D. Professor of Astrophysics, (Ret.) Harvard University
“Extremely useful in all my programs both on and off the court. For those interested in analyzing and improving their tennis, it helps turn failure into success, and losing into winning!!” - Ron Holmberg, Wimbledon Record Holder
“This book has been a valuable aid to all my students in intermediate and advanced tennis classes. Victor's knowledge of the game of tennis put in textbook form is a must for all college tennis instructors!” - Butch Newman, Director of Tennis, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Lesson 1
The Game Simplified
Lesson 2
Learning Simplified
Lesson 3
Your Incidence of Error Simplified
Lesson 4
How to Keep the Ball in the Court Simplified
Lesson 5
Aiming Simplified
Lesson 6
How to Eliminate Errors Simplified
Lesson 7
Timing a Tennis Shot Simplified
Lesson 8
How to Use Yourself Simplified
Lesson 9
Court Coverage Simplified
Lesson 10
Playing the Game Simplified
Lesson 11
The Attacking Game Simplified
Lesson 12
The Serve and Volley Game Simplified
Lesson 13
Serving Tactics Simplified
Lesson 14
The Return of Serve Simplified
Lesson 15
Programming Simplified
Lesson 16
Doubles Simplified
Lesson 17
The Forehand and Backhand Strokes Simplified
Lesson 18
Solutions To Forehand and Backhand Problems Simplified
Lesson 19
The Forehand and Backhand Volley Strokes Simplified
Lesson 20
Solutions To Volley Stroke Problems Simplified
Lesson 21
The Serve Simplified
Lesson 22
Solutions to Service Problems Simplified
Lesson 23
The Overhead Simplified
Lesson 24
Solutions To Overhead Problems Simplified
Lesson 25
Practice Simplified
