Aiming to duplicate the habits of top tennis players takes more than physical training alone. It also means becoming familiar with the ‘success modelling’ process of the recently emerging field of sports psychology, and reading several texts that Barbara Ehrenreich highlights for particular criticism. Sport, tennis in particular, has spawned some timeless classics (at least within the tennis playing world) that predate many self help books, from the early 70s Buddhist approach to tennis, Timothy Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Tennis through to the Machiavellian classic Win Ugly by Brad Gilbert.
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