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YOU CANNOT TEACH HUNGERMost parents enter youth sports believing success can be built through better coaching, more training, and greater opportunity. But after two decades coaching thousands of athletes, Ivan Krcelic discovered a difficult truth: some children are driven from within. Others are carrying someone else's dream. You Cannot Teach Hunger explores what competition reveals about young athletes, parents, and performance —and the difference between motivation and ownership, support and pressure, talent and resilience. This is not a book about producing champions.

They never won the trophy. They won everything else. While Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic defined one of the greatest eras in tennis history, four Frenchmen were writing a different kind of story. Richard Gasquet's one-handed backhand became one of the most beautiful shots of his generation. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga brought explosive power and unforgettable big-match performances. Gaël Monfils transformed defense and athleticism into pure theater. Gilles Simon out-thought opponents with a remarkable brand of patient, analytical tennis.

Confessions of an Ageing Tennis Player is the guidebook that navigates dreams and disappointments, failures and triumphs—a satirical mid-life-crisis handbook for everyone who has never quite fulfilled their fantasies, on the tennis court or anywhere else. This is the story of a man of a certain age who has never quite moved on from his youthful fantasies as he goes from sporting zero to sporting hero. And back again. Set against the backdrop of Wimbledon in 2013 when Andy Murray was the first British player to win the championship for decades, unsurprisingly, ‘Andy’ makes an appearance.

Dennis Emery holds conversations with Legends of Kentucky tennis.