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The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Tennis

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I've played some Tennis (badly) when I was a teen, but am now returning to it in the name of fitness. Most of the Tennis books I found were written for people already 'into' the game, not coming to it for the first time, or retuning. Trish tells us how to get started with the sport well before it's time to step on to the court.

Once on the court, she shows you what's important first, like how to hold a raquet and your body, as well as what's important before and after playing, like stretching and hydration. For a phyicial fitness novice, this is exactly the info I need.

The only trouble I had is Trish's seeming assumption that it's easy to stay fit, limber and available to play with lots of people lots of the time. Maybe a section on 'Tennis for the very busy person' would suit me better.

Overall, this is the ONLY book I've found that makes me comfortable to approach Tennis again, and not afraid to get out there and look the fool for a time while I get the hang of it again.

I love this book! It is the best and only way to learn tennis. I t is easy to understand and very informative. I think that this book is the only tennis book one will ever have to read! Thank you so much Vivian and Trish for making tennis fun and easy for me!

This was a great book for a begginer like me and a more advanced player like my wife. I recomend this book to anyone who has anything to do with the game of tennis. The authors Vivian and Trish really know what they are talking about.

If you want to learn basic strokes of tennis, forehand, backhand volley and serve, forget about this book. This guide contains no more than 10 pictures/illustration of an old lady with a racket. I have no idea how you can learn highly complicated movements from a paragraph of description. Some tips offered in this book are old and wrong.

Visual Tennis is a much better book for learning how to PLAY tennis. Tennis for dummies gives a better overview of tennis.

This book makes it much easier to quickly learn the game of Tennis. I found it entertaining, which keeps my attention while learning the game of Tennis. Hats off to the authors, they made my Tennis day!!!!

I was first tempted by buying "Tennis for Dummies", like most of other beginners. But then I ran into this book from Trish Faulkner. So I made a quick comparison between the two.

These two books contains technical sections like: choosing your racquet, stringing, tennis rules, grip, backhand, forehand, etc, etc .... One may prefer Tennis for Dummies to this one, others may prefer this one to Tennis for Dummies.... just a matter of personal taste.

Personnally, I prefer this one because it has a chapter describing the history of tennis, which is in my opinion interesting to know. The end of the book gives a short description of pro players of the last twenty or thirty years.

One detail among others, that made me buy this book vs. Tennis for Dummies, is the description of the tennis court is given in both foot/inch and international metric system, which is important since tennis is played anywhere around the world.

Last but not least, unlike the previous reader who mentions Trish Faulkner as an "old lady with a racket", beside the fact that Trish certainly plays tennis way better than this reader and wins championships, I think she has done a great deal for tennis by proving that this sport can be played at all age, and can help people staying in good health while having fun.

I was first tempted by buying "Tennis for Dummies", like most of other beginners. But then I ran into this book from Trish Faulkner. So I made a quick comparison between the two.

These two books contains technical sections like: choosing your racquet, stringing, tennis rules, grip, backhand, forehand, etc, etc .... One may prefer Tennis for Dummies to this one, others may prefer this one to Tennis for Dummies.... just a matter of personal taste.

Personnally, I prefer this one because I think it does a better job in introducing tennis to beginners. It starts with a chapter describing the history of tennis, which is in my opinion interesting to know. The end of the book gives a short description of pro players of the last twenty or thirty years.

One detail among others, that made me buy this book vs. Tennis for Dummies, is the description of the tennis court is given in both foot/inch and international metric system, which is important since tennis is played anywhere around the world.

Last but not least, unlike the previous reader who mentions Trish Faulkner as an "old lady with a racket", beside the fact that Trish certainly plays tennis way better than this reader and wins championships, I think she has done a great deal for tennis buy proving that this sport can be played at all age, and can help people staying in good health while having fun.