A Game to Love: In Celebration of Tennis Hardcover – April 1, 2011

I love this book! The photos, which cover all the Grand Slams, are excellent. There is a great introduction and there are good quotes from top players (past and present) interspersed throughout the book. The quality of the binding, paper, and printing is also quite good. Some notes about the photos: it appears that most or all photos are taken from the past 5 years. You won't find anything from the Sampras/Agassi era or earlier. Some of the best photos in the book involve court surfaces. Rolland Garros in particular stands out. You'll also find Nadal is particularly well represented.I'm very glad I bought this book and will appreciate its images for many years to come!

Great tennis book. Little bit of story and info about the photographer MIke Powell to begin and then the remining 90% of the book is all photos. Work of art. GREAT coffee table book.

A resident at a local nursing home, put on his wish list "a photo book on tennis". I'm sure he was excited to receive this one. I looked through it quickly and really thought the photos were beautiful.

Mike Powell spent a year doing what most tennis fans would love to do: attend every Grand Slam event. From Rod Laver Stadium's blue courts in Melbourne to the red clay of Roland Garros in Paris to the green of Wimbeldon then culminating in green and blue at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, Powell's fine eye and camera captured time, players, people, emotions and tennis action in stunningly beautiful shots from close-ups to wide angles. There are comments, phrases and thoughts of pro players to compliment and even augment the photos. No matter if you've had a personal Grand Slam by attending all four, visiting one or another or just, like most of us, by watching the action on television this book should be on your coffe table.

I was disappointed in this book and returned it. The pictures had no identifying or narrative information.I was not impressed with the pictures at all.

Very insightful. I'm not a fan of reading autobiographies of players in their prime, but I looked at it like an interview or something and to hear Rafa's personal take on his matches and philosophies is always an education.

I guess I was hoping for more pictures. Several of the pictures in this book take up two pages. They are almost too enlarged to enjoy. Some pictures like closeups of someone's sweaty back or the side of their head could have been edited out in my opinion. I did like how the book follows the four Grand Slams in order. It gives you a good feel for the 2010 season. This book is just okay.

I thought it was a tennisbook describing matches amongst the best tennis players.Though it was not what I thought I have had a good time looking at it..

Really gorgeous album of high-quality, glossy photographs of the 4 Grand Slams during 2010. Lots of Rafael Nadal, if that's your cup of tea, but many other players, male and female, represented in some great images. Would be even better if it covered a wider time period, though, as 2010 was definitely Rafa's year and it would be nice to have a similar record for some of the other players' great streaks.

Anyting about the great Roger Federer, the Maestro of tennis, is worth having and this is no exceptoin.

Visually beautiful book. No tags for the players. Unless you know every tennis player, it becomes a guessing game….Guess I wish I knew who I was looking at!