Title - The Tennis Drill Book
Author - Tina Hoskins
Format - Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN - 0736049126 and 978 0736049122
Publisher - Human Kinetics Publishers
Release Date - September 2003

This is an extensive tennis manual that touches on a total of 245 different drills that can be integrated into your tennis practice sessions in order to allow you to improve upon your performance in literally every aspect and facet of the game. Progressive drills for tennis technique will help you to master every single stroke, and every single shot combination. Drills for tactics will help you to develop truly winning strategies for every possible game situation that you can run into, including aggressive and defensive, doubles and singles, any kind of court surface, and any and every style of play.

There are mental drills as well, which train you and help you to keep your focus even when the pressure is on. There are also warm up, cool down and conditioning drills that are designed to increase your speed, your agility and your endurance so that you can effectively move into position, outlast your opponents and greatly reduce the chance of sustaining an injury. Finally, there are game based drills that are designed to simulate potential match plays that you can encounter in singles and doubles matches.

The author of this book, Tina Hoskins, is a former professional player who played on the WTA, the Women's Tennis Association. She is a certified professional from the USPTA, the United States Professional Tennis Association. In her career, Tina Hoskins has traveled and trained with some of the top pros in the sport, including Lori McNeil, Zina Garrison and Rodney Harmon as well. She has more than thirty years of experience with playing and teaching tennis to a wide variety of different age levels and levels of ability. She has helped many players achieve rankings with the USTA, and two of her young students have even gone on to achieve national level rankings. In the past ten years she has been working as a head tennis instructor at a prestigious racket club in New Jersey. She is also the owner and the director of her own business, a company known as Future Star Tennis.

This is a very good collection of tennis drills, covering tennis drills for numerous situations including doubles and singles matches, group and children drills, competitive game drills, and even backboard drills. The number of drills provided in this book is staggering, but explained by the wide variety of different situations that the author provides drills for. This is an excellent reference book if you see yourself needing access to a variety of different drills, so is well worth keeping in your gym bag in case you need to turn to it for assistance during your play.

Originally posted 2009-01-14 05:25:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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