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Open (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.32 — 145,370 ratings — published 2009
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.20 — 705,583 ratings — published 2022
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,682 ratings — published 1974
Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,395 ratings — published 1993
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,812 ratings — published 2014
The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,077 ratings — published 2021
Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,656 ratings — published 2009
A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,201 ratings — published 2008
You Cannot Be Serious (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,336 ratings — published 2002
Levels of the Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,035 ratings — published 1969
Apples Never Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.75 — 439,812 ratings — published 2021
Unstoppable: My Life So Far (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,843 ratings — published 2017
All In: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,400 ratings — published 2021
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,983 ratings — published 1996
The Outsider: A Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,644 ratings — published 2010
The Racket (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,962 ratings — published
Serve to Win: The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,436 ratings — published 2013
A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.03 — 548 ratings — published 2009
But Seriously: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,393 ratings — published 2016
The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.03 — 382 ratings — published 2005
Essential Tennis (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.39 — 549 ratings — published
High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the Untold Story of Tennis's Fiercest Rivalry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.90 — 456 ratings — published 2011
Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,122 ratings — published 2007
The Tennis Partner (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,523 ratings — published 1998
Late to the Ball: A Journey into Tennis and Aging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.72 — 520 ratings — published
Unbreakable (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,332 ratings — published 2017
Days of Grace: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,265 ratings — published 1993
Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.80 — 213 ratings — published 2001
Hard Courts: Real Life on the Professional Tennis Tours (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.99 — 340 ratings — published 1991
Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from Twenty Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.44 — 279 ratings — published 2010
Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.42 — 370 ratings — published
Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.88 — 749 ratings — published 2009
A Handful of Summers (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.03 — 232 ratings — published 1978
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.17 — 478 ratings — published
Arthur Ashe: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.16 — 441 ratings — published
Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,344 ratings — published 1996
Double Fault (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.24 — 2,726 ratings — published 1997
My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,721 ratings — published 2022
Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.26 — 751 ratings — published 2018
Clean Point (Game, Set, and Match, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,949 ratings — published 2024
Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.25 — 439 ratings — published
The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.80 — 378 ratings — published 2018
The Singles Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.52 — 18,823 ratings — published 2016
Sudden Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,729 ratings — published 2013
Il tennis come esperienza religiosa (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,811 ratings — published 2006
Hard to Love (Play Hard #5)
by (shelved 11 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,980 ratings — published
Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.80 — 457 ratings — published 2013
Complete Conditioning for Tennis (Complete Conditioning for Sports)
by (shelved 11 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.12 — 97 ratings — published
The Roger Federer Story: Quest for Perfection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,046 ratings — published 2007
“Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?”
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“When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed. When it first shoots up out of the earth, we don't condemn it as immature and underdeveloped; nor do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process taking place and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development. The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change; yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.”
― The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
― The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
