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The Davis Cup

Author : Richard Evans
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780789302571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Davis Cup written by Richard Evans and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Davis Cup offered me more immediate pleasure than almost anything else I accomplished in my career....I hope you enjoy this detailed history of a unique competition. Whether it is played at Kooyong or Casablanca, a World Group Final or a first round in the African Zone, Davis Cup offers tennis players the rare chance of experiencing the thrill of playing for your teammates and your country."--John McEnroe, from the "Foreword" Back in Boston in 1900, they called it "Dwight's little pot," but very soon it turned out to be much more than that. Dwight Davis's idea of offering a silver bowl as a prize to be fought for each year between tennis-playing nations grew into one of the most recognized and keenly contested annual sporting competitions in the world. Beginning as a match between the United States and the British Isles at the Longwood Cricket Club, the Davis Cup has endured for one hundred years, modifying itself now and again, but essentially remaining what Dwight Davis always intended it to be: a means of nurturing healthy sporting relations between countries all over the globe. In this lavishly illustrated history, Richard Evans, one of the world's leading tennis writers, chronicles not merely the matches that caught the imagination of millions but the extraordinary array of personalities who gave the Cup its luster and whose names are now engraved on its silver panels-- Anthony Wilding, the dashing New Zealander who rode from tournament to tournament on one of the first motorbikes, leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake; Wilding's Australian colleague Norman Brookes, a taciturn man known as "the Wizard"; or Maurice McLoughlin, dubbed "the Californian Comet."There was Bill Tilden, arrogant, effete, and outrageous, who insisted on playing his own "sweet game" on and off the court and became a world superstar doing it. Or the Four Musketeers who held the Cup for France for six years before a handsome Englishman with the wrong accent-- at least for the snob-ridden 1930s-- came along to snatch it away. Fred Perry won the Cup for Britain three times, and now it has fallen to Greg Rusedski and Tim Henman to try to get it back. The Harry Hopman dynasty, in which the legendary Australian coach produced a conveyer belt of champions-- from Frank Sedgman, Lew Hoad, and Ken Rosewall to Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, and John Newcombe-- was centered around Davis Cup triumph; and the story continues, through the turbulent years of Ilie Nastase and John McEnroe to Yannick Noah's successes for France in the 1990s. The Davis Cup has quite a story to tell. And this book tells that story: an unforgettable sporting and social odyssey covering one hundred years.

Davis Cup Yearbook 1999

Author : Christopher Clarey
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780789303844
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Davis Cup Yearbook 1999 written by Christopher Clarey and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Centenary year of the Davis Cup was the year of Australia, but it was more than that. It was the year of dramatic reversals of fortune. Todd Martin celebrated in Birmingham and then ended up dizzy and disillusioned one round later in the steamy heat of Boston. Partrick Rafter, the man who beat him in the decisive match, rode the shoulders of his teammates after his decisive victory and then missed the rest of the campaign because of an injury to one of his own shoulders. In his place, the Australian stars were a journeyman (Wayne Arthurs), an inexperienced teenager (Lleyton Hewitt), and a former David Cup outcast (Mark Philippoussis). Though his own country, the United States, did not prosper for long, Dwight Davis would surely have enjoyed most of what transpired in 1999: the story lines, the quality of play, and the enthusiasm of the crowd in Nice that made it difficult for doubles partners to hear each other, even when they were shouting from close range. Davis also would surely have been astonished at the continued growth of the competition he has launched by issuing a transatlantic challenge to the British in 1900. This book, written by International Herald Tribune sports correspondent and longtime New York Times contributor Christopher Clarey, is an extended and thoughtful examination of the matches and personalities that defined this special season. With much of its material gathered form exclusive interviews, it provides a unique perspective on the game's premier team event: an event that has been making tennis heroes and his troy for one hundred years.

Historical Dictionary of Tennis

Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810872374
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Tennis written by John Grasso and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sport of tennis has been played in one form or another for more than 800 years. It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of 150 miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite athletes, tennis has grown immensely in the past 135 years and it remains one of the few sporting pastimes thatis played extensively by people of all ages and all nationalities. The Historical Dictionary of Tennis presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photos, and over 500 cross-referenceddictionary entries on places, teams, terminology, and people, including Arthur Ashe, Björn Borg, Don Budge, Chris Evert, Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Suzanne Lenglen, John McEnroe, Rafael Nadal, Martina Navratilova, and Bill Tilden. Appendixes of the members of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the Major Championships of Tennis, and the Olympic games are included. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about tennis.

Davis Cup Yearbook 1997

Author : Christopher Clarey
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780789301253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Davis Cup Yearbook 1997 written by Christopher Clarey and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1998-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full-colour volume documents the action and drama of tennis's annual international team competition. Photographs are included of the world's finest men players, with stories of their individual achievements.

Hardcourt Confidential

Author : Patrick McEnroe
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 140139597X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Hardcourt Confidential written by Patrick McEnroe and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and unfiltered look at professional tennis as only Patrick McEnroe can offer. Patrick McEnroe has been in the world of professional tennis in one way or another for most of his life. As a player, coach, and ESPN commentator, he's seen it all. The significant tennis books of recent years have all been autobiographies--famous players burnishing their image or attempting to set the record straight within carefully controlled memoirs. No one has been willing to do a book that pulls back the curtain and presents an honest, no-holds-barred look into the ultimate gentleman's sport and the larger-than-life personalities that inhabit it. Patrick McEnroe does just that. Curious to know which marquee player threw a tantrum and bailed early on a tournament? Why Roger Federer, presumably the greatest player of all time, has a losing head-to-head record with Rafael Nadal? Why certain tennis prodigies burned out early? The real role of coaches like Nick Bollettieri? Which player is as much of a diva off the court as on? The greatest match ever played? In Hardcourt Confidential, McEnroe uses his twenty-five-plus years in the trenches of the game to tell true tales and wild stories about the players you think you know (from Sampras to Agassi to Roddick to the Williams sisters), how and why the game has changed since he first swung a racket, and what the future holds in store for American tennis. McEnroe takes an unapologetic look at the men, women, and events of the past three decades, right up to the epic Federer vs. Nadal rivalry that dominates the game today. He's got a lot to say and he's not afraid to say it.

Davis Cup Yearbook 2002

Author : Neil Harman
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780789308399
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Davis Cup Yearbook 2002 written by Neil Harman and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With candid text and never-before-published photographs, this dynamic yearbook captures the dramatic story lines, high quality of play, and enthusiasm of the crowd that characterize Davis Cup. Launched in 1900 as a match between the United States and Great Britain, Davis Cup has grown into the largest annual team competition in sport with more than 130 nations entered in the year 2002. With Patrick McEnroe returning as the coach for a U.S. team that has advanced to the semifinals with Pete Sampras and Andy Roddick in its lineup, the competition now generates more attention in the U.S. than ever before.

Seeing Serena

Author : Gerald Marzorati
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982127899
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Serena written by Gerald Marzorati and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer “a deep, satisfying meditation” (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women’s tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and—by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others—changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams’s influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams’s return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter—from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women’s tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators—and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically—reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an “enlightening…keen analysis” (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.

The History of Tennis

Author : Richard Evans
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847869873
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The History of Tennis written by Richard Evans and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the passion, drama, and beauty of tennis is captured in this most up-to-date comprehensive history--from its early beginnings as a sport, the greatest matches ever played, to its global star players and personalities of present day. This volume is a must-read for tennis aficionados. Tennis, the much-loved sport, is a game for the ages dating back to sixteenth-century royal court matches played by King Henry VIII. History of Tennis captures the sport's long history, never short of theatrics, rivalries, power plays, political controversies, and inspiring personal stories. Beautiful historic and contemporary images of gripping matches like the unforgettable Bjorn Borg versus John McEnroe tiebreak match in 1980, to behind-the-scenes moments with tennis legends, and never-before-seen shots, grace each page accompanied by Richard Evans's intriguing stories and unique insight detailing the evolution of this majestic sport by decade. Starting as a European royal pastime and gaining popularity in England and France, the sport made its way to America in the late 1870s as the new game of lawn tennis, creating along the centuries legendary tennis superstars such as Bill Tilden, Suzanne Lenglen and the Four Musketeers, Fred Perry, Billie Jean King, John McEnroe, and Steffi Graf. Now one of the most highly watched sports globally with top-billing icons like Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, and Naomi Osaka, there is no stopping the power of this allenthralling game. This is a must-have volume for lifelong fans and those intrigued by the sporting theater and grand culture of tennis.

Arthur Ashe

Author : Raymond Arsenault
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439189056
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Arthur Ashe written by Raymond Arsenault and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A “thoroughly captivating biography” (The San Francisco Chronicle) of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age of eleven, Arthur Ashe was one of the state’s most talented black tennis players. He became the first African American to play for the US Davis Cup team in 1963, and two years later he won the NCAA singles championship. In 1968, he rose to a number one national ranking. Turning professional in 1969, he soon became one of the world’s most successful tennis stars, winning the Australian Open in 1970 and Wimbledon in 1975. After retiring in 1980, he served four years as the US Davis Cup captain and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1985. In this “deep, detailed, thoughtful chronicle” (The New York Times Book Review), Raymond Arsenault chronicles Ashe’s rise to stardom on the court. But much of the book explores his off-court career as a human rights activist, philanthropist, broadcaster, writer, businessman, and celebrity. In the 1970s and 1980s, Ashe gained renown as an advocate for sportsmanship, education, racial equality, and the elimination of apartheid in South Africa. But from 1979 on, he was forced to deal with a serious heart condition that led to multiple surgeries and blood transfusions, one of which left him HIV-positive. After devoting the last ten months of his life to AIDS activism, Ashe died in February 1993 at the age of forty-nine, leaving an inspiring legacy of dignity, integrity, and active citizenship. Based on prodigious research, including more than one hundred interviews, Arthur Ashe puts Ashe in the context of both his time and the long struggle of African-American athletes seeking equal opportunity and respect, and “will serve as the standard work on Ashe for some time” (Library Journal, starred review).

Pete Sampras: Greatness Revisited

Author : Steve Flink
Publisher : New Chapter Press
ISBN 13 : 9781937559946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Pete Sampras: Greatness Revisited written by Steve Flink and published by New Chapter Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this career biography of Sampras, the author recaptures the magic of the man, recalling the supreme hold he had on his era, bringing this isngulary gifted player vividly back to life.

A Terrible Splendor

Author : Marshall Fisher
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307393941
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Terrible Splendor written by Marshall Fisher and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the prominent figures and events surrounding the 1937 Davis Cup Tournament, specifically the match between Don Budge of the United States and Gottfried von Cramm of Germany.

A Social History of Tennis in Britain

Author : Robert J. Lake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134445571
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Tennis in Britain written by Robert J. Lake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake explains how the game’s historical roots have shaped its contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us much about the history of wider British society. Since its emergence as a spare-time diversion for landed elites, the dominant culture in British tennis has been one of amateurism and exclusion, with tennis sitting alongside cricket and golf as a vehicle for the reproduction of middle-class values throughout wider British society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, the Lawn Tennis Association has been accused of a failure to promote inclusion or widen participation, despite steadfast efforts to develop talent and improve coaching practices and structures. Robert Lake examines these themes in the context of the global development of tennis and important processes of commercialisation and professional and social development that have shaped both tennis and wider society. The social history of tennis in Britain is a microcosm of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British social history: sustained class power and class conflict; struggles for female emancipation and racial integration; the decline of empire; and, Britain’s shifting relationship with America, continental Europe, and Commonwealth nations. This book is important and fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport or British social history.

Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia

Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459474
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia written by Steven A. Riess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today. Nearly 400 articles examine historical and cultural aspects of leagues, teams, institutions, major competitions, the media and other related industries, as well as legal and social issues, economic factors, ethnic and racial participation, and the growth of institutions and venues. Also included are biographical entries on notable individuals—not just outstanding athletes, but owners and promoters, journalists and broadcasters, and innovators of other kinds—along with in-depth entries on the history of major and minor sports from air racing and archery to wrestling and yachting. A detailed chronology, master bibliography, and directory of institutions, organizations, and governing bodies—plus more than 100 vintage and contemporary photographs—round out the coverage.

Tennis

Author : Heiner Gillmeister
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814731215
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Tennis written by Heiner Gillmeister and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of tennis, Henry Gillmeister's Tennis may also be considered the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in the early Middle Ages to the appearance of the modern game in the twentieth century. Along the way, he debunks several firmly established myths about the history of the game, including those surrounding the invention of the Davis Cup. Rare photographs and never before published medieval and renaissance drawings generously adorn the text, and a treasure trove of bibliographical information provides its coda. A delight for the sports fan and the scholar alike, Tennis will prove the athorative text on tennis for years to come.

The Circuit

Author : Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718679
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Circuit written by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing “The Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.” —Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters “As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis.” —John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet—and Paris Review sports columnist—Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it’s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from winter’s Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall’s U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life. The Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis—you bring it with you.

Dwight Davis

Author : Nancy Kriplen
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780091868505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Dwight Davis written by Nancy Kriplen and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight Davis was born in St Louis in 1879. He took up tennis at the age of 15, competing in the US national championships a year later. At Harvard, he began specializing in doubles play, and won the US doubles championship in 1899. This is the story of the man who founded the Davis Cup in 1900.

A Champion's Mind

Author : Pete Sampras
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030738330X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Champion's Mind written by Pete Sampras and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this determination led to tennis domination, success didn’t come without a price. Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about the personal trials he faced—including the death of a longtime coach and confidant—and the struggles he gutted his way through while being seemingly on top of the world. Among the book’s most riveting scenes are the devastating early loss that led Pete to make a monastic commitment to the game; fierce on-court battles with Andre Agassi; and the triumphant last match of Pete’s career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open. "A thoroughly compelling read that really probes the hard drive of a champion...All the emotion and insight that Sampras seemes reluctant to express during his playing days come spilling forth." —Jon Wertheim, senior writer, Sports Illustrated