Game Set Match Life

James Patrick Wilbanks' background, experience, and success in the arena of tennis, including playing and teaching, coupled with his creative mindset resulted in Game, Set, Match-Life, a novel that is set in the tennis world. It tells the story of a young tennis player named Nicky who began playing tennis at the early age of four. Many years later, he finds himself in a relationship with his girlfriend, Juli, and plans to play college tennis in Hawaii. However, geographical destruction and relationship demise weigh heavy on this young man's heart as he attempts to figure out his future. Sweeping changes in the tennis world may be a blessing in disguise. Will Nicky's dreams of college and pro tennis be realized?

Argues that Billie Jean King's 1973 defeat of male player Bobby Riggs in tennis' Battle of the Sexes match helped, along with the passage of the Title IX anti-sex discrimination act, cause a revolution in women's sports.

Publisher Fact Sheet Looks at the entire negotiation process from the all-important, but often overlooked, initial planning stages, through opening negotiations, mid-game, end game, & follow up.

Charlie Jones and Kim Doren are rapidly becoming admired authors of sports advice. Following their popular golf instruction book, Be The Ball: A Golf Instruction Book For The Mind, Game, Set, Match gives tennis players everywhere the inside track on how the stars prepare for their games. Many of the biggest names in tennis have contributed their personal advice for this book. Learn from tennis champions Monica Seles and Michael Change, legends Jack Kramer and Rod Laver, coaches Nick Bolletierri and Vic Braden, game analysts Bud Collins and Pam Shriver, and celebrities such as Dick Van Patton and Regis Philbin, who love to play the game. More than 50 contributors in all offer their unique poiners and philosophies about using the power of the mind to become the best tennis player you can. Everyone who is serious about tennis will want a copy of this insightful and inspiring book about the mental side of the game.

Brought to you by the United States Tennis Association, The U.S. Open: Game, Set, Unmatched presents the past, the present and even the future of the Open in all its gaudy splendor, with evocative photography of the legends of the game and the tournament's most memorable moments along with insightful prose from Roger M. Williams.

Sometimes life hands you lemons. In this collection of jokes, autobiography, and personal philosophy, author and businessman Dr. J. T. Dock Houk makes an ocean of lemonade. Life’s a Joke compiles four books – “It’s All About Me,” “My Life with a Girl,” “Kids and Pets,” and “Life Around Us” – recounting 1,162 jokes, funny anecdotes, and descriptions of Sunday morning comics, clippings of which Dock has been collecting for an incredible amount of decades. As the author writes, “What I mean to convey by saying ‘life is a joke’ is that humor has helped me over some of the rough spots by showing me a side of life that either explains what I am feeling, or gives me a glimpse of something I also see. Humor, whose visual expression is often a joke, makes me smile or even laugh out loud. And sometimes, if you don’t laugh, you might cry.” So crack open Life’s a Joke and crack a smile. You might learn a little wisdom – but if not, at least you’ll get a laugh

Here’s the Thing is a new collection of thought-provoking essays from Haji Mohamed Dawjee. Filled with stories and insights that are contemplative, comedic and controversial, you will find a touching letter to her father, the honest truth about the pain in the arse that is parenting and ponderings about struggling with the vicissitudes of the modern world filled with cancel culture and the controversies of appreciating the wrong artists. There is also a serving of the many wise lessons the game of tennis has to offer as well as hilarious insights and observations on dustbins, yes dustbins, and ageing, that ring true. Here’s the Thing is relatable, relevant, entertaining, soothingly self-deprecating and, at times, morally challenging.

Combines three fast-moving spy thrillers that feature the smooth, cynical British agent Bernard Samson--"Berlin Game," "Mexico Set," and "London Match"--in an epic tale of international treachery and intrigue