This guide to teaching tennis to kids emphasizes having a good time while learning the fundamentals of the game. Dozens of fun games help kids acquire basic skills such as hand-eye coordination and an understanding of spin and ball control. The illustrations and diagrams are amusing and useful; the playing instructions are simple and direct. This book can be used by schools and after-school programs, summer camps and recreational programs, and parents and kids with dreams of entering professional sports. It is a tool for all new players and their coaches.

Simple words and phrases, paired with photographs, illustrate beginning tennis concepts.

"To assist you with your team-management skills, the book includes practical content on coaching matches and developing season and practice plans that promotes tennis as a team sport. A convenient activity finder culls over 30 activities from the book into one section with page numbers for easy reference, while an expanded chapter on rules and equipment presents new youth modifications recently adopted by the USTA. The official handbook of USTA Jr. Team Tennis, Coaching Youth Tennis serves up coaching know-how that's sure to be a winner with you and your players."--BOOK JACKET.

What's your favorite sport? In My Favorite Sport: Gymnastics students will learn all about the sport of gymnastics. Each My Favorite Sport book includes engaging nonfiction text about the sport, the equipment, and the skills needed to play the game.

'Yes!' yelled Stefan. He threw his arms up in the air. 'Game, set and match to me! But there was no one else to cheer him on. Stefan has winning racquet skills. But will he ever play a real game of tennis?

A simple introduction to the equipment, rules, and techniques of tennis.

Explains the basic skills and techniques of tennis, and includes over sixty activities and drills, as well as instruction in singles and doubles match play.

This is a great book to take a trip to the exciting world of tennis, to see how this game appeared and developed from ancient times to the present day, to learn its idea and rules, as well as to learn a tennis court, racket, ball, clothes, etc.

These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.

'Yes!' yelled Stefan. He threw his arms up in the air. 'Game, set and match to me! But there was no one else to cheer him on. Stefan has winning racquet skills. But will he ever play a real game of tennis?