Love game a history of tennis, from Victorian pastime to global phenomenon
Tennis is defined by its head games, its demands for physical prowess, and its plethora of outsized personalities. It mixes chess and dance, intellectual geometry and aesthetic joy. People who love tennis love it like few others love other sports. Some fans build their lives around the calendar of t...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- The game of love
- A leisured class
- Healthy excitement and scientific play
- Real tennis and the scoring system
- The growth of a sporting culture
- On the Riviera
- What's wrong with women?
- A match out of Henry James
- The lonely American
- The four musketeers
- Working-class heroes
- Tennis in Weimar and after
- As a man grows older
- Three women
- This sporting life
- Home from the war
- Gorgeous girls
- Opening play
- Those also excluded
- Tennis meets feminism
- That's entertainment
- Bad behaviour
- Corporate tennis
- Women's power
- Vorsprung durch Technik
- Celebrity stars
- Millennium tennis
- The rhetoric of sport
- Back to the future.
