Learn and master all the essential skills of tennis to take your game to the next level. Tennis, Third Edition: Steps to Success provides in-depth, progressive instruction and accompanying illustrations for each stroke: the serve, return of serve, forehand, backhand, volley, lob, drop shot, and overhead smash. Practice and improve those techniques with 80 drills that feature a scoring system to gauge and accelerate your progress.

After building a strong skill base, add tactical knowledge to make the right shots in match situations, in both singles and doubles play. With a little work, you'll be hitting winners in no time!

Become a complete player on the court. As part of the popular Steps to Success Series—-with more than 1.5 million copies sold—-Tennis, Third Edition: Steps to Success will take your performance level to new heights in all facets of the game.

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I haven't seen my copy of the book in 3 years, as a co-worker I loaned it to refuses to return it. My recollection is that the chapters take the reader, or more appropriately the coach/instructor, through the steps to accomplish each outlined task. The introduction/overview, demonstration, drills, and review of each topic is handled quite well. I've been an accomplished player for 29 years and a teaching professional for the last 21 and I learned some helpful drills that are very appropriate for most levels of players. I use this guide as a training manual for my newest assistants. Additionally, I place copies of lessons at each court for a circuit-type, self-learning/drilling workout for many of my teenage intermediate/advanced player workouts. The drills are easy to follow.

While I don't advocate all of the drills, I'm impressed by the layout of the learning structure created. I recommend this reference book for virtually all instructors. I believe many learning individuals would benefit from reviewing the contents, as they could easily follow the steps.

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Provides a solid foundations of basic skillsFeb 18, 2003
By Sherry Russell "Reviewer/author"
It is hard to learn a game like tennis from a book but this book does the best job on communicating the basic skills and concepts. Jim Brown helps new players develop confidence through the well written instructions. When a family member wanted to learn about tennis, this is the book I had them read.

Well doneOct 01, 2007
By Liliya Leontyeva
Book is in a good condition. It was send, however, a bit tool ate. Everything else is wonderful.

Good for beginners, but could be better for othersJul 21, 2006
By Rocky Mtn man
Overall, this book gives solid advice on the fundamentals. Great for beginners and intermediates who need a reveiw of key fundamentals. It needs some improvement on the example pictures. Possibly using pictures of real people in action demonstrating the subject matter would be better than the hand drawn pictures. Multi-framed pictures of the ground strokes and serves would be a great improvement. The exercises and drill didn't do much for me, but suppose would be helpful for others.