Love Game : A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon /

Tennis has never been played better than it is today. To watch Rafael Nadal spin a forehand at 4000 rpm, Maria Sharapova arabesque out of a serve, Serena Williams utterly destroy a short ball, or Roger Federer touch a volley into an impossibly angled winner is to watch not only the best players with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Tennis > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION / General.
tennis, sports, athletics, sport, balls, raquet, court, victorian, history, historical, time period, era, global, international, phenomenon, popular, rafael nadal, maria sharapova, serena, venus, williams, short ball, roger federer, tournament, biographical, culture, modern, contemporary, academic, scholarly, research, england, western, scoring, feminism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 The game of love
  • PART ONE A LEISURED CLASS
  • 2 Healthy excitement and scientific play
  • 3 Real tennis and the scoring system
  • 4 The growth of a sporting culture
  • 5 On the Riviera
  • 6 What's wrong with women?
  • 7 A match out of Henry James
  • 8 The lonely American
  • 9 The Four Musketeers
  • 10 Working-class heroes
  • 11 Tennis in Weimar - and after
  • 12 As a man grows older
  • 13 Three women
  • PART TWO THIS SPORTING LIFE
  • 14 Home from the war
  • 15 Gorgeous girls
  • 16 Opening play
  • 17 Those also excluded
  • 18 Tennis meets feminism
  • PART THREE THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT
  • 19 Bad behaviour
  • 20 Corporate tennis
  • 21 Women's power
  • 22 Vorsprung durch Technik
  • 23 Celebrity stars
  • 24 Millennium tennis
  • 25 The rhetoric of sport
  • 26 Back to the future
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • REFERENCES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INDEX

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