Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “Live the Best Story of Your Life” By Bob Litwin

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “Live the Best Story of Your Life” By Bob Litwin

Bob Litwin’s Live the Best Story of Your Life delivers great stories of change on so many levels. Bob’s ability to weed through peoples issues is truly remarkable. The clients make the changes, Bob is a true agent of change. The thing to know is Bob wasn’t always a Zen tennis master and legendary champion….

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: Facing Federer

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: Facing Federer

Now available at Amazon.com, Facing Federer by Scoop Malinowski features more than 50 ATP players as they describe the actual experience of playing tennis against Roger Federer. The book also includes Federer interviews, media, celebrity, fan and insider perspectives of one of the greatest sportsman of all time. Here is an excerpt of three players,…

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: Tennis Inside the Zone: Mental Training Workouts for Champions By Rob Polishook, MA, CPC

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: Tennis Inside the Zone: Mental Training Workouts for Champions By Rob Polishook, MA, CPC

  I have a question: What percentage of tennis do you think is mental? I always thought it was a minimum of 50 percent and a maximum of 99 percent, depending on whom you play, the tournament and match score. As a junior USTA player and collegiate Division I player, I often wonder why most players…

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “You Cannot be Serious” by John McEnroe With James Kaplan

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “You Cannot be Serious” by John McEnroe With James Kaplan

It’s a good thing the editors at Long Island Tennis Magazine asked me to review John McEnroe’s book, You Cannot be Serious, because I discovered a big, fat lie on page 260. Describing a February 1991 match against his brother, Patrick, John McEnroe says he was serving at match point when a phone rang. The older…

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “The Making of a Winner: A Fable About the Power Within” By David E. Moe

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “The Making of a Winner: A Fable About the Power Within” By David E. Moe

“If you ding it, just re-swing it. David E. Moe has written a book that will be of use to any tennis player if they are open to a multi-disciplinary guide to improving their game. The Making of a Winner: A Fable About the Power Within takes tidbits from sports psychology, biofeedback and Eastern religions,…

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “The Tennis Player From Bermuda” By Fiona Hodgkin

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: “The Tennis Player From Bermuda” By Fiona Hodgkin

Boy, does this novel lay it on thick. It is full of references to the island in the title, the history of Wimbledon especially in the early 1960s and what could be construed to be a rather naive, worshipful take on the mating rituals of upper class Brits and colonials during that period. One chapter…

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: Ray Benton Saved My Life … A Review of Joel Drucker’s “Jimmy Connors Saved My Life”

Long Island Tennis Magazine’s Literary Corner: Ray Benton Saved My Life … A Review of Joel Drucker’s “Jimmy Connors Saved My Life”

I am supposed to review books about tennis in this space, but every so often, a book comes along that weaves the tennis content with so much other profound content that the tennis parts seem secondary. Joel Drucker’s Jimmy Connors Saved My Life is one such book. It’s a great title for starters. The book…

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