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William B. Cole Consultants Championship Tennis Ebook

Championship Tennis

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Championship Tennis

The 271-page ebook Championship Tennis has hundreds of stroke, strategy, learning, training and performance tips, definitions, checklists, procedures, concepts, techniques and exercises to help you learn and master your tennis game.

This is for tennis players of all levels, from total beginners to tournament competitors.


Championship Tennis Is Your Master Blueprint To Tennis Success.


Many of the tips and techniques contained in this book have never been published before. Bill Cole's fertile mind has developed countless new approaches to learning, training and performing that he has successfully used with his junior, collegiate, state, national and international professional tennis champions.

Championship Tennis has over 824 tested tips that have helped tennis players at all levels achieve success. Here is just a sampling of what you will find in this information-packed, 271-page book.


  • Over 35 checklists containing over 1200 items to help you become aware of yourself as a tennis player so you can take concrete steps to improve.
  • 247 tactics and strategies that help you win more.
  • 90 learning strategies for lessons and self-coaching.
  • More than 70 stroke technique tips for better power, control and accuracy.
  • 106 things to do in the warm-up that take you closer to success.
  • 76 tips and techniques for a better spin serve.
  • 82 smart footwork tips and techniques.
  • 22 tips that help you improve your groundstrokes.
  • 46 tips for creating a winning game plan.
  • 50 ways to practice, on court and off.
  • Five clever volley and overhead techniques.
  • The revolutionary recoil volley technique, guaranteed to fix a number of volley problems.
  • Six reasons (with solutions) you lose to weaker players.
  • 31 winning doubles tips and strategies.
  • 21 specific techniques for how to watch the ball better.
  • 22 ways to serve better.
  • A 107-item tennis strategy glossary.

TABLE OF CONTENTS


BUILDING YOUR TENNIS GAME

  • Reaching For Tennis Excellence
  • The Success Factors Of Tennis

LEARNING 

  • Should You Take Group Or Private Lessons?
  • How To Select A Tennis Professional
  • Get The Most Out Of Your Tennis Lessons
  • The Four Competency Levels
  • Cole's Ten Laws Of Learning
  • The Sports Skill Learning Cycle
  • Implicit Vs. Explicit Learning
  • Winning The Self-Coaching Game

PRACTICING

  • 50 Ways To Practice Your Tennis On Court And Off
  • How Productive Was Your Practice Session?
  • Does Practice Make Perfect?

PERFORMING 

  • How To Improve Any Performance
  • How To Warm Up
  • The Rule About Talking During A Point

STROKE ASSESSMENT AND TROUBLESHOOTING 

  • Quick Fixes For Common Stroke Problems
  • Self-Assessment Checklist For Fixing Stroke Troubles

TIMING 

  • Sharpen Your Timing And Play Better Tennis
  • Serve And Overhead Timing Using A Musical Metaphor

VISION

  • Control Your Vision – Part One
  • Control Your Vision – Part Two
  • Overcome These Three Harmful Optical Illusions

GROUNDSTROKES 

  • Groundstroke Tips That Help You Win
  • What About The Open Stance? Revolutionary? Archaic?

THE SERVE 

  • Serving Tips That Help You Win
  • To Be A Better Server, Don't Act Like A Pitcher
  • Learning The Spin Serve
  • The Spin Serve Checklist
  • The Slice Serve Checklist

NET PLAY 

  • Overhead Smash Tips
  • Volley Tips To Help You Master The Net
  • The Recoil Volley Technique

FOOTWORK 

  • Assess Your Footwork, Balance, And Stance Technique
  • Do You Split Step?

STRATEGY AND TACTICS 

  • The Seven Laws Of Winning
  • Do You Know Why You Win Or Lose?
  • Play Smart Tennis–101 Ways To Win A Point
  • Do You Have A Winning Game Plan?
  • How To Win When Your A-Game Leaves Town
  • Discover Why You Lose To Weaker Players
  • How's Your Passing Shot Strategy?
  • Doubles Maxims
  • How To Lose A Tennis Match

GLOSSARY 

  • The Smart Tennis Player's Glossary

This special ebook is available for immediate downloading in PDF format for $19.95USD, payable by credit card. Note that this is not a hard or soft bound book, and it will not be mailed to you on CD, hardcopy or in any other form. It is a pdf file which can be printed or viewed on your computer, but may need a format conversion to allow viewing on a kindle or other e-reader. If you would like this product in other formats, please contact us.

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About the Author Bill Cole, MS, MA

Bill Cole

Bill Cole, MS, MA, is an internationally recognized expert on peak performance, coaching and the mental game. He was a two-sport athlete at the national level, and played pro tennis in the 1980's. He has coached at the highest levels of major-league pro sports and big-time college athletics. Bill is a Wall Of Fame Honoree, an award-winning scholar-athlete, and a published author of numerous books and articles.


For three years Bill was the Sport Psychology Coach for the Israeli Davis Cup team. He spent time with the team at major events worldwide, including Wimbledon, The US Open and Davis Cup in Europe. Dedi Jacob, the Head Coach, wrote this testimonial about Bill's time with the players.


"Bill is a very talented and deeply-knowledgeable mental game coach. His ability to help our players stay motivated, focused and on-track is just excellent. Bill really takes the time to understand people, to listen and to figure out what each person needs to achieve and excel. He has crafted a comprehensive mental game peak performance program for us, as a mental game advisor to individual players and team mental game coach for team practice sessions. He is a master mental game coach. He is one of the top peak performance coaches on the Pro Tennis Tour. More players on the pro tour could use his help."

Israeli Davis Cup Team


Learn more about Bill Cole, The Mental Game Coach.

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