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Dear Lício.
I am very satisfied to visit this well elaborated home-page of your book
mainly because the lack of information has always been an enormous
barrier for the tennis development in Brazil.
It is nice to know that
we can access TOP TENNIS on the internet and acquire knowledge about this
sport that is now in full ascension in Brazil. By only using the
computer mouse and clicking on links of your intelligent home-page, the most modern information
about tennis and what is happening
in this sport all over the world are available. It is also very
interesting your weekly “Tennis Tips”.
Nowadays we need qualified people that
have a profound knowledge about tennis to work towards our main goal:
help this sport reach higher levels in Brazil. The
phenomenon Guga has been important for this project, however we need not only
one but several Gugas to indeed solidify the country's position in
the international scenery. Your book is a key work towards this project and I congratulate you for this.
A big hug from your Friend Jacob.
Jacob Kreimer - Tennis
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Dear Lício.
Nevertheless my everyday life coaching Fernando has been very busy, I found a spare
time to read your book and to visit your site on the Internet. I am
happy to see your dream come true, giving people all
over the country the chance to obtain the best information about our
sport.
Excellent job. I hope that people know how to enjoy all its potential.
Congratulations.
Ricardo Acioly
- Brazilian Davis Cup Coach
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Hi Lício.
I am very happy to know that Brazilian tennis relies on talented
professionals like yourself. The lack of professionalism and support are
predominant in our country, but even so Brazil has been recognized
internationally, though not yet benefited from all its greatness. Many of our talented players don't reach to the top of
professional tennis due to external reasons and not due to their lack of
talent and dedication.
If you,
Lício, were born American, you would become a “national
hero”. Thanks for all that you did for the Brazilian tennis and for the great
tennis players that you helped evolve in their careers. Your passion
and wisdom for tennis will never be forgotten.
Marco Azevedo (a.k.a. Mola) - Professional Tennis Player |
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This book, by
Professor Lício Grangeiro, is an important
contribution to amplify the spectrum of the Brazilian tennis,
and it becomes an efficient instrument for coinciding with the
goals of COSAT in normalizing, qualifying, and popularizing
the South American tennis.
Arq. Vicente Calderón Zeballos.
President of
the South American Tennis
Confederation -
COSAT
Secretary: seccosat@ceibo.entelnet.bo
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On my
responsibility of leading the new generation of managers of the
Tennis Federations of the Brazilian States - engaged in the process
of backing modernization of the tennis organizations, for the
improvement of sport quality practiced in the Country - the
publication of the book TOP TENNIS is a
first-class instrument in our working agenda.
Besides the
routine activities, related to the popularization of the sport,
filiations, calendar planning, promotion and supervision of
events, ranking, legislation, courses, etc., the spread of scientific knowledge has been one of our
biggest challenges.
Therefore, the work of the coach Lício Grangeiro
contributes to fill this blank, representing inclusively a
mark in the modernization process for the national tennis.
Facing this
important happening, I have the honor, on behalf of the Board of
Directors of the national tennis, to present our unanimous
recognition to this priceless work for the tennis
players of today and the generations of tomorrow.
Nelson Nastás.
President of the Brazilian
Tennis Confederation - CBT
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During almost 100
years of tennis history in Brazil, the transmission of theoretical
and empirical knowledge used in the process of learning has
happened through the reading of rare translated publications and the
popular primitive way of verbal diffusion of personal
experiences.
Facing this
reality, the contents of the work TOP TENNIS stand out
for supplying the tennis community with a valuable source of
systematized and broad knowledge based
on a consistent professional experience and on information
of scientific nature.
Comparing it with books of my
collection, composed of pioneers such as Alexander (1908), Vaíle (1914), and Lowe (1920),
classical authors as Tilden (1950), Hopman (1972), Laver (1977), and
Braden (1977), to the most recent as Burwash’s (1981), Douglas
(1982), Murphy (1982), Groppel (1984), Applewhaite (1987), Hohm
(1987), and Bollettieri (1991), I don't hesitate to conclude
that Grangeiro (1996) has become the main Brazilian intellectual
highlight of the kind when rescuing the basic of the past,
the essential of the present, and the fundamental for the next
decades.
Aristides I. F. Marques M.Sc., Ph.D.
Former President of Brasiliense
Tennis Federation - FBT
Vice President of the CBT
Director of COSAT
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