The Art of Lawn Tennis

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The Minerva Group, Inc., 2001 - History - 260 pages
Tennis is at once an art and a science. The game as played by such men as Norman E. Brookes, the late Anthony Wilding, William M. Johnston, and R.N. Williams is art. Yet like all true art, it has its basis in scientific methods that must be learned and learned thoroughly for a foundation before the artistic structure of a great tennis game can be constructed.
 

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FOR NOVICES ONLY
19
THE DRIVE
33
SERVICE
38
THE VOLLEY AND OVERHEAD SMASH
45
THE LAWS OF TENNIS PSYCHOLOGY
61
GENERAL TENNIS PSYCHOLOGY
63
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MATCH PLAY
77
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PHYSICAL FITNESS
88
THE PROBABLE FUTURE OF THE GAME
128
SOME SIDELIGHTS ON FAMOUS PLAYERS
163
SOME SIDELIGHTS ON FAMOUS PLAYERS
165
AMERICA
169
BRITISH ISLES
182
FRANCE AND JAPAN
189
SPAIN AND THE CONTINENT
198
THE COLONIES
204

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SINGLES AND DOUBLES
97
MODERN TENNIS AND ITS FUTURE
105
THE GROWTH OF THE MODERN GAME
107
FAMOUS WOMEN PLAYERS
213
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