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Tennis : a history from American amateurs to global professionals /
"The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis's evolution into the game we watch to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Sport and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Tennis amateurs and tennis professionals
- Amateur Associations along the American Atlantic Coast
- The West Coast game
- The cause célèbre of the pioneering professional
- Depression-Era developments in amateur and professional tennis
- Wartime Southern California professionals
- The cultural contexts of mid-century women's tennis
- The "Kramer Karavan"
- The world champion from "The Wrong Side of the Tracks"
- Tennis Opens
- The rise and demise of world championship tennis
- The impact of sports agents and agencies on professional tennis
- Women's professional tennis in the early Open era
- Conclusion: Professional tennis as global entertainment.