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

by Elizabeth Wilson

Book Overview

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 the best coaching hitting with the best racquets, it is to watch the culmination of an entire history. Love Game is different from most tennis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022637128X
• ISBN13: 9780226371283
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"