A working library of the sport’s classic and modern literature. The twelve Tennis Future Lab monographs appear here in full English translation, laid out exactly as their Vietnamese editions. The eighty-four originally English titles carry a written introduction and a direct link to the Vietnamese translation of the same book — and every Vietnamese page links back.
Each English entry links to its Vietnamese edition, and each Vietnamese entry links back. The glossary of 229 standardised terms is maintained on the Vietnamese side and is the reference both editions use.
Twelve volumes written inside the series and published here in full English translation — mechanics, perception, pressure, and the long argument about how a stroke actually works. Read alone or as one systematic frame.
The opening volume of Tennis Future Lab: a map of the modern stroke and the thinking behind it. A shot begins at the court, travels the kinetic chain, passes through the elastic strings inside the body, and only then reaches the racket.
Bringing Tai Chi into modern tennis: breath, balance, hip rotation and release as the answer to injury and burnout — from serve, backhand and volley to the quiet work of staying loose under load.
From the Unified Court to the movement science of the modern game: biotensegrity chains, vestibular vision, the split-step, and the eight-phase architecture of a stroke.
The court as a field of probability: angle architecture, the time windows that open and close, recovery geometry along the bisector, and the four spatial variables that decide a point.
Anatomy of a stroke from the court surface to the night's sleep: ground reaction force and the battery under the feet, fascia and the kinetic chain, the boundary of neural transmission — nineteen layers of one forehand.
Managing a match as a system: probabilistic thinking and the architecture of a single point, serve and return as two separate systems, patterns inside a tiebreak, and keeping your head when the score is readable.
Closing the circle back to the beginning: rooting into the court, holding the spinal axis, and feeling the racket face before thinking about the shot.
The physiology of pressure and the art of holding rhythm, narrowed to the twenty seconds between points — which is where a match is actually decided.
Changing the unit of analysis: the body is not a machine but a network of waves. Fascia, tensegrity and wave mechanics, from the theory of transmission to practice on court.
Four pillars of competitive character and the Big 3 mindset brought into a single frame: what separates the players who win from the players who merely play well.
The series closes on the hardest shot to teach, because at the net there is no time left to correct. Principles from Tai Chi through to elite technique.
Extending the map of materials: from the Dunlop Maxply wooden racket to the Prince Classic oversize and the carbon-graphite frames of the modern tour.
The books that made sport psychology part of tennis: the inner critic, choking, the fear of winning, and the routines that survive a bad call at 4-4 in the third.
A sport-psychology classic built around the Three R's — Release, Review, Reset — the twenty-five seconds between points that decide whether a match is won or lost. Seven mental traps are named and dismantled, with forty-seven diagrams showing exactly where a player's attention belongs.
Allen Fox's answer to tennis's oldest paradox: the player with the prettier game so often loses. He maps the ego's quiet sabotage, dissects choking as a physiological event rather than a character flaw, and shows how to play the score instead of the shot.
The book that gave sport a new vocabulary. Gallwey separates Self 1, the running critic, from Self 2, the body that already knows how to hit, then teaches quieting the first so the second can perform. Still the most influential tennis book ever written.
Connors' own manual from the years he held 109 singles titles: strip the stroke to its essentials, take the two-handed backhand early on the rise, and punish the second serve. A competitor's book about how points are actually won.
Champions on the inner game. Venus Williams, Chris Evert, Jack Kramer, Rod Laver, Michael Chang, Stan Smith and Todd Martin each describe the part of competition no coach can teach — nerve, the management of nerve, and the will to close.
A 1974 anthology: winning with the head, the dark arts of gamesmanship, the mind overriding the body, and the temperaments that separate contenders from champions. A window into how the game was thought about before sport psychology had a name.
Burkett's 1979 guide to the unified athlete: Tennis Centering as a way of anchoring attention, and the four games running at once — emotional, social, intellectual, physical. A quiet, humane book from an era that mostly shouted.
Kramer's percentage tennis across thirty-nine chapters: the strike zone standardised, the grip fitted like a glove, the serve built for placement rather than speed. The book that taught a generation to play the odds instead of the highlight.
Sport psychology seen through fifty champions: Evert's narrow focus, the physiology of choking, the fear of winning, and how Ashe broke an opponent's rhythm. An Atheneum / Tennis Magazine book that took the mental game seriously before it was fashionable.
Braden, a clinical psychologist as well as a coach, traces the signal from brain to muscle and explains why players repeat the errors they swear they have fixed. Practical, funny, and built on measurement rather than folklore.
Giampaolo's point is uncomfortable and correct: players spend every hour on technique and then lose to emotions they never trained. A workbook of drills for the emotional side of competition, separating the player who practises well from the one who competes well.
Yandell's argument is that language is the wrong channel for learning a stroke. He breaks classical technique into image-based frames the right hemisphere can copy directly, freeing the player from verbal instruction and the self-commentary that follows it.
Six competitive mental skills built on established research: anxiety regulation along the inverted-U, centering, the four dimensions of confidence, and the routines that survive a bad call at 4-4 in the third.
Eastern contemplation meeting Western technique. Mutimer takes Evonne Goolagong's 1974 Wimbledon final — the state of being in the zone — as his model, and shows how meditation and breath work make that state repeatable rather than accidental.
Thirty-five years of elite coaching plus guest chapters from Jim Courier, Chris Evert, Nick Bollettieri, Patrick McEnroe, Dennis Van der Meer, Brad Gilbert and Dick Gould. What separates players at the top is catalogued rather than mythologised.
What actually happens when racket meets ball — kinetic chains, the Magnus effect, elastic deformation, and the mathematics of a whip.
Groppel's biomechanics applied to the court: angular momentum, the heavy ball, one-handed against two-handed backhands, and the Magnus effect behind spin. A USTA science project introduced by Vic Braden.
Human Kinetics' anatomical study of the sport: the rotator cuff, the forearm, core rotation, and the ground-up engine that drives every stroke. Each movement is paired with the muscles producing it and the exercises that protect them.
Closed kinetic chains, anatomical axes of rotation and the acceleration path of the racket, analysed frame by frame from video. Langevad builds injury prevention out of mechanics rather than guesswork.
A mathematics-of-mechanics study from Springer. Federer at Wimbledon 2009 — a winner-to-error ratio of 2.8 — is decoded through whip-like kinetic chains and the stretch reflex in the serve. Dense, serious, and unlike any other tennis book.
Newton's three laws on a tennis court, the physics of impact and elastic deformation, the nap of the felt, and the Magnus effect. A Cengage title that explains the sport's physics to a reader who has never opened a physics text.
How machine intelligence is reshaping the sport: Hawk-Eye Live reconstructing trajectories in three dimensions to within three millimetres, new performance metrics, and the analytics now sitting in the coaching box. A survey of tennis's data revolution.
From the six actions that govern every shot to a five-hundred-step visual course: grips, stances, swing paths and the contact point.
A visual course in every phase of every stroke — modern topspin forehand, one- and two-handed backhands, the kick serve, the low skidding slice — photographed in sequence and annotated with the biomechanics behind each frame.
Four stances — open, semi-open, square, closed — analysed mechanically, with the case for the elliptical loop backswing, the split-step that generates acceleration, the carioca step, and the discipline of the contact point.
Human Kinetics' drill-based programme: owning the modern forehand, the inside-out forehand, the two-handed backhand and the defensive slice, then the serve-plus-one patterns that follow them into a point.
Two hundred and forty-five drills with diagrams. Grips from Continental through Semi-Western, the four base stances, depth control, and the volley skills that decide a net exchange. A coach's reference rather than a player's memoir.
The book that helped start the topspin revolution: the Magnus effect explained, the low-to-high swing path, and topspin off both wings treated as a system rather than a flourish.
Henry Hines rebuilt the footwork of Arthur Ashe and Roscoe Tanner, and here sets out the movement system that did it: the ready position that stores energy, and the patterns that turn defence into attack in a single step.
Quick fixes from America's best coaches: the index finger on the grip, the C-shaped loop on the forehand, turning the back and locking the wrist on the backhand, and the mechanics of the serve toss.
Dorling Kindersley's forty-eight-hour course: Friday-night preparation, groundstrokes and serve on Saturday, the net game and match play on Sunday. Photographed step by step, and built for the complete beginner.
An anthology of instruction from the greatest names in the game: Kramer's power forehand, backhand lessons from Don Budge and Ken Rosewall, Ashe's cannonball, and the twist serve. The best of a magazine at its peak.
Brown's case for unlearning: the natural stroke recovered through the throwing motion, high-percentage court geometry, and reading an opponent's intention before the ball leaves the strings. Written for the club player who never had a coach.
A diagnostic manual. Metzler works through four forehand grips and wrist stability, the fear that freezes a backhand, and the mechanics of the shots that break down under pressure — then prescribes the remedy for each.
Human Kinetics' step-by-step pedagogy, from the bevels of the grip through Eastern, Semi-Western and Continental, to movement patterns and the progression that builds a rally. Written by a college head coach.
Smith reduces the game to six actions that govern every shot: relaxing on court, the ready position, opening the racket back, watching the ball, the contact point, and the finish. A Wimbledon and US Open champion, distilled.
Human Kinetics' most widely adopted instructional text: an eleven-step progression through groundstrokes, serve, volley and half-volley, each step carrying its own success criteria and its own fault corrections.
The book that changed how tennis was taught. Braden and a team of physicists demonstrated the superiority of the loop swing — stored angular acceleration — over the flat, linear hit, and made slow-motion film the coach's instrument.
Wegner dismantles the classic dogmas — step into the ball, hit flat through the centre — and replaces them with the method his students carried to the tour. Two hours, he argues, is enough to begin playing the modern game.
Percentage tennis, court geometry and the arithmetic of the cross-court. Playing the odds rather than the highlight.
Tactics and temperament with a sense of humour: simplify the stroke, retire the lazy feet, defuse the big server, and win with the five shots you can actually rely on. Written for the player who competes on Saturdays.
A tournament player's manual organised by NTRP level, 2.5 to 5.0 and beyond: percentage tennis, the points that matter at 30-30 and deuce, break points, and how to neutralise an opponent's strength instead of admiring it.
Tennis as geometry and statistics. Brent replaces improvised shot-making with the geometric funnel that constrains an opponent's reply, the approach down the line that closes the angle, and the sequences that build a point.
Fourteen chapters built on the SMARTS movement system — See, Move, Adjust, Rotate, Transfer, Swing — applied to the serve, the return and the transition game. A structured programme for the player who wants a plan.
The German Tennis Federation's official coaching curriculum: functional movement analysis, the anchor leg in biomechanics, and the dynamics of ball–racket interaction. Barron's English-language edition of a national syllabus.
Braden's later synthesis: the classic misconceptions named and corrected, the Magnus science of spin, the loop swing, wrist locking at impact, and the geometry that makes a shot safe rather than merely impressive.
A systematic treatment of strategy for both singles and doubles, with all ninety-three tactical diagrams and six statistical tables reproduced in full. Ashe called it the standard work, and it has not been displaced.
Court geometry and competitive psychology from a UCLA PhD who played Davis Cup. Fox computes the bisector of the angle of play, the safety of the cross-court, and why the brave shot is usually the disciplined one.
The other game: formations, poaching, the alley as a weapon, and the understanding two players have to build over years of standing on the same side.
Three fundamental formations — two back, one up and one back, both up — and the coordination that makes them work: the deep serve, the poach, the switch, and the communication that holds a pair together.
From a player with more than twenty Grand Slam titles: the geometry of the doubles court, how the alley changes the available angles and the time a ball is in flight, and the positioning that follows from both.
Eleven chapters praised by Evonne Goolagong-Cawley, Neale Fraser, Virginia Wade and Owen Davidson. Singleton starts from why doubles is a different game, then builds the serve, the return and the partnership.
Fourteen chapters from the foundations to a tactics notebook of sixty-four sample exchanges: the four player roles, the art of pairing, and the patterns that win at the net.
The book Arthur Ashe named as the standard work, with all 147 diagrams of points unfolding from serve, return and net position. Talbert and Old effectively wrote the tactical grammar that modern doubles still uses.
Forty-five continuous photographic sequences analysing racket opening, contact point, foot placement, and the synchronised movement that makes a doubles pair faster than the sum of its two halves.
Six chapters from the standard two-back formation through one-up-one-back to the full net game, on both serve and return, closing with the lob and the problems that decide close matches.
George Lott, the man they called the Bill Tilden of doubles, on the angled dink into the alley, the three-target serve, the lob as a weapon rather than a rescue, and the poaching that breaks a pair's rhythm.
Twelve chapters from one of the greatest doubles teams ever assembled: four golden principles that govern any situation, eight rotating roles, and the understanding two players build over years of standing on the same side.
Smith's manual for building a team rather than finding a partner: the serve-and-volley division of labour, and the seven chapters of positioning, communication and shot selection that follow from it.
All fourteen chapters, unabridged: the terminator role, the poach, the switch, and the shot combinations that let an ordinary pair beat a better one. Blaskower is among America's most respected doubles coaches.
Neuroscience, biomechanics and comedy in one book. Braden shows how a smile releases muscles clenched by tension, locates the imaginary X that fixes court position, and treats doubles as a game to be enjoyed rather than survived.
Curricula, pedagogy and physiology for the people doing the teaching — including the USTA, USPTA, ASEP and German Tennis Federation standard texts.
Competitive character and stroke mechanics from a coach who worked with Newcombe and Roche: eliminating double faults through head position, the timing pause, and the tactical reading that separates a good player from a dangerous one.
The physics of the sport for the person teaching it: the law of centre-of-gravity transfer, the Magnus aerodynamics of each spin, and a problem-solving method for diagnosing a fault rather than reciting a correction.
The USTA's standard coaching manual: pedagogy, the kinetic chain taught as a sequence, singles and doubles tactics, and the season planning that turns a squad into a programme.
Developing players aged eight to eighteen: the iron discipline of Bradenton, the boundary between parent and coach, the modern attacking forehand, and the serve mechanics that produced ten world number ones.
The most complete sport-science treatment of tennis coaching: Newtonian biomechanics, the kinetic chain, motor learning and the design of variable practice. A USTA and Human Kinetics collaboration between three leading researchers.
The official textbook of the United States Professional Tennis Association: Groppel on the kinetic chain, the lever systems of a stroke, and the professional standards of teaching. A Kodak-backed reference.
From a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion and a legendary college coach: advice for parents, a staged progression for juniors, and the technical foundation that survives adolescence.
Movement medicine, mental imagery and an integrated philosophy of living: dissolving the body–mind split, choreographing footwork on an imagined court, and the silver-tray technique that steadies a serve under pressure.
Seventeen fitness tests, more than fifty strength exercises, a protocol for protecting the rotator cuff, and speed and agility work including the Spider drill. The USTA's conditioning standard in ten chapters.
The American Sport Education Program's coaching course: the games approach to teaching, the I-D-E-A instructional model, R-I-C-E first aid for court injuries, and how to keep children playing rather than quitting.
The most comprehensive manual from the coach who shaped Agassi, Sampras, Courier, Seles, Sharapova and the Williams sisters: stroke production, periodised training, and the academy system that industrialised player development.
A USTA national coach's pedagogy: the player-centred approach, the physical and psychological milestones from five to eighteen, and a five-step lesson structure that holds a group's attention.
The authoritative medical reference for tennis, edited by three of the field's leading shoulder and sports-medicine specialists: the serve's kinetic chain, the compensatory overload patterns that follow it, and scapular dyskinesis.
Where to begin, and the reference works to keep beside the court once you have.
Two hundred and twenty-eight practical tips from the only man to win the Grand Slam twice: grip, serve, volley, forehand, backhand, and the small adjustments that add up to a level. Advice from a player who never wasted a shot.
A model instructional text: Continental, Eastern and Semi-Western grips, the low-to-high swing geometry, the kick serve's mechanics, and the structured practices that make them stick.
All eighteen chapters of Ashe's Atheneum classic: the volley taught before the groundstroke, the serve as a throwing motion, and a beginner's path that respects the learner rather than the syllabus.
A management consultant who took up coaching at fifty found the sameness beneath every stroke: the vertical plane of contact, the shared geometry, one motion wearing different disguises. Five hundred visual steps.
The most detailed encyclopaedia in the tennis literature, examining every stroke millimetre by millimetre — forehand, backhand, volley, smash, serve — in a book designed by a master of the form.
The global beginner's standard: court layout, the strange arithmetic of Love, 15, 30, 40, the strokes, the etiquette, and enough strategy to hold a rally and enjoy it. Written by a Davis Cup captain and a veteran writer.
The game as culture: Ashe's tour diary, the 2008 Wimbledon final, charisma read through Bonnard and Vuillard, and Machiavelli on the doubles court.
Ashe's last book: the mechanics of the standard strokes, the five-shot rule for every point, and the tactical masterpiece of his win over Jimmy Connors. With a memorial foreword by John McPhee and Billie Jean King.
From the owner of the finest backhand slice in the game's history: controlling the tempo of a match, a classical grip held firmly, footwork that saves energy rather than spending it, and the patience to wait for the right ball.
Award-winning sports journalism on the sport's hidden corners: the Williams sisters' resolve, Agassi, Sampras, the tragedy of the overbearing tennis parent, and the politics of the professional tour.
Machiavelli's logic applied to a tennis court: doubles as a problem of positioning rather than power, the manipulation of serve and return, and the cold arithmetic of giving an opponent the shot he dislikes.
Ashe's diary of the 1973–74 tour, across seventy-one cities and five continents: tactical analyses of matches against Borg, Connors and Nastase, and an honest record of what the travelling life costs.
The 2008 Wimbledon final between Federer and Nadal, reconstructed as the collision of two complete philosophies — classical elegance against relentless topspin — by Sports Illustrated's senior tennis writer.
A cultural historian's essay on charisma: what makes a champion magnetic, read through Pierre Bonnard's and Édouard Vuillard's paintings of country-house tennis, and through the players who made the game an art.