Tennis has a reputation for being a gentlemen’s sport, a sport where you wear whites, congratulate the other player, curse yourself, then shake hands at the end regardless of the outcome.

But as any competitive tennis player knows, this couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, if I had to compare tennis with any other sport, it would be with boxing.

In both sports you’re on your own out there, one on one. You each have your chair to compose yourself, think, rest and hydrate. Attached to your hands are either gloves or a racquet and ball. You then throw everything you’ve got at your opponent, using power, speed, agility, reactions and guile. You pick up points as you go along, until someone delivers the knockout blow.

That’s why stepping out onto the tennis court without the very best preparation is as foolish an act as stepping into a boxing ring unprepared. You would be guaranteed a physical, psychological and skilful beating – only in tennis you might still have your front teeth!

So if you want to deliver that knockout blow to your opponents in 2008 – even if it is with a tennis ball rather than a leather glove! – make sure you order a copy of our very latest special report, Training for Tennis, right away. You’ll find it invaluable.

Because Training for Tennis brings together, for the very first time, innovative training and conditioning techniques that will change the way you prepare for the 2008 season.

This brand new report is a thorough, yet eminently readable, distillation of the very latest thinking on preparing for match-day success in competitive tennis. It dissects the major current debates in sports scientific circles, analyses the very latest scientific thinking – then spells out in plain English its significance for the serious athlete and coach alike.

NB: Every page of Training for Tennis draws on the very latest evidence-based scientific research into training and playing top-level tennis – new findings that probably won’t percolate through to the general sporting press for many, many months, if they make it at all…

So it’s a rare opportunity to assess for yourself the very latest thinking on training for competitive tennis, and decide how best to integrate it into your own training and conditioning programme for 2008.

Get your copy of our brand new tennis special report today, and here are just some of the match-winning techniques you’ll learn:

• How and why should you adapt your conditioning programme to take account of different court surfaces?

• Which form of resistance training is best suited to making a player into a “big hitter”, capable of serving and returning winners time and again?

• How can you train your senses to improve your ability to ‘read the game’, thereby making sure that you’re always in the best position to anticipate – and return – your opponent’s shot?

• Two proven mental strategies for building resilient self-confidence – so you’re able to survive even the most powerful on-court onslaught from your opponent

• How does your choice of tennis equipment make you more or less likely to get injured – and what practical steps can you take to avoid falling victim?

• Which exercises are proven to get rid of ‘tennis elbow’ – and protect you from future injury?

Order your copy TODAY and be sure of getting your 2008 season off to the right start!