Yesterday I read On the Line by Serena Williams and Daniel Paisner. This is probably not a book for you if you don’t love tennis, and it is certainly not for you if you don’t like Serena (unless you have an open mind, and then this book may swing you into her camp). I am a [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I read Brad Gilbert’s Winning Ugly, a tennis match prep book that focuses on “mental warfare.” The title of the book comes from the phrase often used to describe Gilbert’s game; he was a player without any stellar shots or a big serve and yet he won matches through hanging tough mentally and by playing [...]
Continue Reading →Billie Jean King’s Pressure is a Privilege is a genuine and heartfelt sharing of her philosophies on life all set within the framework of her 1973 match against Bobby Riggs, the battle of the sexes that set the record straight for the hundreds of thousands who watched the game: women play sports as seriously and with [...]
Continue Reading →Yesterday I read the amazing The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, about the forty years he spent in Africa as a Polish journalist. He was in Africa from the late 1950s through the late 1990s. Kapuscinski makes clear in his forward that there are a thousand Africas, and that there can never be one [...]
Continue Reading →The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey is a wonderful artifact of the seventies. It is completely lacking in irony and chock-full of zen insight; it is also refreshingly optimistic about the possibilities for all of us to play better tennis and enjoy a better life. I liked this book a lot. Gallwey [...]
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