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Sports Academy: Tennis Clive Gifford

Sports Academy: Tennis By Clive Gifford

Sports Academy: Tennis by Clive Gifford


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Build your tennis skills with Sports Academy: Tennis

Sports Academy: Tennis Summary

Sports Academy: Tennis by Clive Gifford

Build your tennis skills with Sports Academy: Tennis

Looking to take up a new sport? Or just thinking about ways to keep fit and healthy? This book is a great introduction to all the important tennis skills you'll need. Full of skills tips and illustrations showing key techniques, you'll discover everything - from serving to scoring.

The series Sports Academy covers rules, equipment and major competitions through specially commissioned, step-by-step illustrations that clearly shows skills and techniques needed for a sporting children aged 9+.

About Clive Gifford

Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk

Table of Contents

  • 1: What is Tennis?
  • 2: In Competition
  • 3: Ready to Play
  • 4: The Forehand Drive
  • 5: The Backhand Drive
  • 6: Volleys
  • 7: Courtcraft
  • 8: Learning to Serve
  • 9: Serving and Receiving
  • 10: Advanced Shots
  • 11: Playing Doubles
  • 12: Statistics and Records
  • 13: Glossary and Further Information
  • 14: Index

Additional information

NGR9781445178523
9781445178523
1445178524
Sports Academy: Tennis by Clive Gifford
New
Paperback
Hachette Children's Group
2022-07-14
48
N/A
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