"Table Tennis - Tips from a World Champion? is a practical training book for successful table tennis. The aim is not to copy Werner Schlager as a player but to use his tips to find your own way to use them successfully. Numerous picture series explain technique and tactic. This book is meant to encourage individuality in technique and game.

Bernd-Ulrich Gross was the head coach of a German Bundesliga table tennis club from 1989-1991. He was publisher and editor of a German table tennis magazine and organizer of big table tennis events. Gross is involved in the production of the monthly Newsletter of the Japanese company Butterfly, the world-famous manufacturer of table tennis equipment.