Apples Never Fall
This novel by Australian Liane Moriarty is a multi-layered saga that reveals how dysfunction can simmer just beneath the surface of family relationships that appearRead More
2 responsesAn engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
This novel by Australian Liane Moriarty is a multi-layered saga that reveals how dysfunction can simmer just beneath the surface of family relationships that appearRead More
2 responsesAt the time of this writing, Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid has over 23,000 customer reviews on Amazon and a cumulative 4.4-starRead More
1 responseSince I have been unable to find suitable titles that align with the Clay Court season leading into the French Open at Roland Garros thisRead More
The recent emergence of Carlos Alcaraz as the heir-apparent to Rafael Nadal is evidence that the tennis player development program in Spain is having aRead More
1 responseSarah Flood is currently a teaching tennis professional at the Houston Racquet Club. That bland statement obscures the triumph over adversity that makes that blandRead More
Vic Braden’s Mental Tennis is a classic book on the psychological side of tennis. It was originally published in 1993, shortly after my junior playingRead More
I wrote about receiving a copy of the tennis instructional classic “Watch the Ball, Bend your knees, That’ll be $20 please!” as a birthday giftRead More
This week we are examining another book by James E Loehr. Mental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence was originally published in 1982. ToRead More
Jim Loehr is a renowned performance psychologist and coach. He works with corporate clients as well as elite professional athletes in several sports. A formerRead More
I have periodically run across a seemingly unusual book recommendation for Psycho-Cybernetics. Even though the book ostensibly has nothing to do with tennis on theRead More