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Open (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.33 — 157,781 ratings — published 2009
Carrie Soto Is Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.19 — 792,897 ratings — published 2022
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.18 — 32,997 ratings — published 1974
Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis - Lessons from a Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,759 ratings — published 1993
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,434 ratings — published 2014
The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,624 ratings — published 2021
Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,710 ratings — published 2009
Levels of the Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,310 ratings — published 1969
A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,277 ratings — published 2008
You Cannot Be Serious (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,405 ratings — published 2002
Apples Never Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.75 — 463,486 ratings — published 2021
The Racket (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,363 ratings — published
All In: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,830 ratings — published 2021
Unstoppable: My Life So Far (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,117 ratings — published 2017
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,913 ratings — published 1996
The Outsider: A Memoir — A Tennis Star's Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,689 ratings — published 2010
The Open Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,684 ratings — published 2026
Essential Tennis (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.38 — 622 ratings — published
Serve to Win: The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,616 ratings — published 2013
A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.03 — 584 ratings — published 2009
The Tennis Partner (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.03 — 18,602 ratings — published 1998
Thirty Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,286 ratings — published 2026
But Seriously: An Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,451 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 4.05 — 389 ratings — published 2005
Breaking Back: How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,135 ratings — published 2007
Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.20 — 927 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 — 472 ratings — published 2011
Clean Point (Game, Set, and Match, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,995 ratings — published 2024
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.13 — 767 ratings — published
Unbreakable (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,771 ratings — published 2017
Late to the Ball: A Journey into Tennis and Aging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.74 — 546 ratings — published
Days of Grace: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,285 ratings — published 1993
Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women's Tennis Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.82 — 219 ratings — published 2001
Hard Courts: Real Life on the Professional Tennis Tours (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.01 — 362 ratings — published 1991
Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.89 — 767 ratings — published 2009
Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.42 — 379 ratings — published
A Handful of Summers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.05 — 245 ratings — published 1978
Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.99 — 51,861 ratings — published 1996
Game, Set, Match (Match Point, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,006 ratings — published 2013
The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.79 — 416 ratings — published 2018
Arthur Ashe: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.17 — 460 ratings — published
Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from Twenty Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.44 — 282 ratings — published 2010
Double Fault (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.25 — 2,815 ratings — published 1997
The Singles Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.52 — 19,595 ratings — published 2016
The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.08 — 655 ratings — published
My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis & Teamwork (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,009 ratings — published 2022
Il tennis come esperienza religiosa (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,091 ratings — published 2006
In Your Court (Love Game, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as tennis)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,985 ratings — published
Game Point (Game, Set, and Match, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as tennis)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,011 ratings — published
“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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“Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he was one of the worst flyhalves he can remember. This did not prevent him from having opinions on most things in sport.
His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.”
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His moment of glory came in 1970 when he predicted—correctly as it turned out—that Griquas would beat the Blue Bulls (then still the meekly named Noord-Transvaal) in the Currie Cup final. It is something for which he has never been forgiven by the powers-that-be at Loftus. Archie has played cricket in South Africa and India and gave the bowling term military medium a new and more pacifist interpretation. His greatest ambition was to score a century on Llandudno beach before the tide came in.”
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