title: Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare in Tennis--Lessons from a Master
author:  Brad Gilbert 
description: "<i>Winning Ugly</i> explains Brad's formula for a winning tennis game. He understands the mental part of tennis better than anyone I have ever met. Brad helped me improve my game and I believe he can improve yours." (Andre Agassi)<br /><br />"Priceless for tennis players of all levels." (Chris Fowler, ESPN)<br /><br />"<i>Winning Ugly</i> is great. These are pro tactics that will improve a recreational player's game fast. <i>Winning Ugly</i> teaches how to play better tennis and is very entertaining." (Pete Sampras)<br /><br />"<i>Winning Ugly</i> is a totally new approach to getting more out of your tennis game. I wish it had been around when I was learning how to play." (Jim Courier)
zlib_text: **Skin Game**
  
   **Ava Gray**
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
  Kyra held the guy’s balls in the palm of her hand. Literally.
  
  Just for a second as she brushed by him, but it was enough. His eyes widened,
  and she knew he took the touch as a sign he’d get lucky after he won her last
  hundred bucks. The crumpled bill lay underneath his, weighted by a cube of
  pool chalk.
  
  Poor, stupid mark.
  
  She slid him a slow smile as she racked for their fourth and final contest.
  His friends stood with beers in their hands, half-smiling in anticipation of a
  sure thing. In a seedy place like this, they had only an old table with worn
  felt near the right corner, making it necessary to compensate. That wouldn’t
  slow her up this game, though.
  
  Her opponent had years of practice on this particular table. A scruffy, hard-
  drinking son of a bitch like him had no better skill, nothing else going for
  him. No, calling himself reigning champ at Suds Beer Factory defined him. She
  counted on that.
  
  Spinning her cue stick between her 