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The Purple Guide to Learning Tennis in 10 Days
A 10-day starter plan to hit, rally, and decide if tennis is worth your time — no lessons required yet.
by Alumigogo Books
Chapter 1: First Day
Welcome. Let me start by saying you have no idea how to hold a tennis racket, and that is completely fine. Most people who pick this book up fall into one of two groups: they either played a little as a kid, badly, and haven't touched a racket since, or they have never been near a tennis court in their life except to walk past it. If either of those is you, you're in exactly the right place. And if what you're feeling right now is a little like the night before a first day at a new job - a bit excited, a bit anxious, a bit 'what am I doing' - that's normal too. Let's get through together, one hour at a time.
Before I tell you what today's session looks like, let's set the stage. You need three things for today, and only three things. A racket. It does not matter what kind. If you have an old wooden one from your garage, fine. If you've borrowed one from a friend, even better. If you have none at all, some tennis clubs rent them cheaply, or you can buy the cheapest new one available in a sports shop - no need to spend more than twenty to thirty dollars today. You also need two or three tennis balls. Not squash balls, not beach balls, not old cracked ones - proper, yellow-green, fuzzy felt tennis balls. Optional but helpful: a water bottle and some