The reduced history of tennis : the story of the genteel racket-and-ball game squeezed into 101 smashes and lobs
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The reduced history of tennis : the story of the genteel racket-and-ball game squeezed into 101 smashes and lobs
André Deutsch, 2006
- : hbk
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the story of tennis as it's never been told before. It is a top-spinning compilation of sports reports, spoof correspondence and reminiscences about the gentleman and the players, the ladies and the ball-boys, the coaches and the gurus and the umpires and the line judges that have graced and disgraced the quintessential game of high summer. The clean aces, racket abuse, net cords, strawberries and cream, the on-court tantrums and the little white dresses that got the crowd oohing and ahhing in the fruity manner of Dan Maskell are amusingly recalled.
Table of Contents
- The "Battle of the Sexes"
- * Fred Perry
- * Little Mo
- * Billie Jean King
- * Chrissy Evert
- * Buster Mottram
- * Ilie Nastase
- * "You Can Not Be Serious"
- * The Williams sisters
- * Anna Kournikova
- * Maria Sharapova
- * Ken Rosewall
- * Yvonne Goolagong
- * King Henry VIII
- * Electronic linesmen
- * Lemon Barley Water
- * Martina Navratilova
- * Rain delays
- * Grunting
- * Madrid Open ball girls
- * Virginia Wade
- * Henri Lacoste
- * Cliff Richard
- * Henmania
- * Arthur Ashe
- * Drobny and Hoad
- * Bonking Boris Becker
- * Duchess of Kent
- * Rod Laver
- * People's Sunday
- * Althea Gibson
- * Steffi Graf
- * Jimmy Connors
- * Bjorn Borg
- * Monica Seles
- * Wimbledon queues
- * Renee Richards
- * Roger Federer
- * Henman Hill & Murray Mount
- * AND MUCH MORE.
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