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Wyatt, Barbara

 
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Synopsis

You will burst out laughing when you read Ode to Tennis, a small gift book for tennis players. The delightful rhyming poem highlights the joy and frustrations during a tennis lesson. At the start of the lesson, the player is on fire as her balls effortlessly fly across the net and drop into the court. I whip it, I flip it, The ball flies deep with spin. No doubt Rafael Nadal Is my identical twin. Her tennis instructor gives her pointers and provides advice from The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. The delightful illustrations by Mario Barrera capture the euphoria and struggles of players who take up the game of tennis later in life. This small gift book reminds us that tennis is a game of many brilliant strokes followed by a few boneheaded ones.

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Wyatt is a writer, photographer, USTA official and mobile app developer for iKnowTennis!, the tennis rules app. Wyatt's short stories are published in fiction anthologies: The Sun Never Rises: A Rainthology (Muddy Puddle Press), Dream Makers: Stories that Won't Put You to Sleep (Muddy Puddle Press) and One-Sentence Stories: An Anthology of Stories Written in a Single Sentence (2017). She has written for several national magazines including Boys’ Life, AmericanStyle, Good Old Boat, Northwest Travel, and more. She was a photojournalist for United State Tennis Association PNW Tennis Time. Her passion for the sport is shown in her sports writing and photography for USTA PWN Tennis Times, New York Tennis and Long Island Tennis.

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