Tennis : A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals Paperback / softback
by Greg Ruth
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Analyzing how tennis turned proThe 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 today.
His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968.
From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women’s tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money.
What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment.Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages, 51 black & white photographs, 5 maps
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2021
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- ISBN:9780252085888
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages, 51 black & white photographs, 5 maps
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:27/07/2021
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- ISBN:9780252085888