The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology Paperback - 1999
by Caryl Phillips
From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams, 65 great writings on tennis chronicle the transformation of the sport in our time.
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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had witnessed the steady decline of the ancient game of tennis.
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From stately lawns and gentlemen players to Andre Agassi and Venus Williams: 65 great writings on tennis that chronicle the transformation of the sport.
Since its inception, tennis has embraced traditions more patrician than plebeian. But times--and tennis--have changed. The game once reserved for royalty has moved from estate lawns to the concrete courts of the city. Old guard amateurs have given way to prodigies plastered with corporate logos. And while barriers of gender, race, and class have been shattered, the modern plagues of self-promotion, the paparazzi, and challengers of ever-escalating talent loom large.
In The Right Set, award-winning novelist and editor Caryl Phillips presents a collection of writings on the remarkable evolution of a gentleman's pastime into a sport of jet-set players of athletic and psychological genius. Here are the stories of champions, from the Renshaw twins to "ghetto Cinderella" Venus Williams. Here, too, are volleys between tradition and innovation--debates on everything from etiquette and earnings to Andre Agassi's rejection of the customary tennis whites. Insightful, informative, wonderfully entertaining, The Right Set is as colorful and surprising as the game itself.
John McPhee on Ashe vs. Graebner
David Higdon on Venus Williams
James Thurber on Helen Wills
Martina Navratilova on Bad Losers
Martin Amis on Smashing the Rackets
and more
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- Title The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology
- Author Caryl Phillips
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition. p
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date July 27, 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780375706462 / 0375706461
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.78 in (20.27 x 13.51 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Tennis, Tennis - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99017240
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.342
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 123
- Library Journal, 05/15/1999, Page 101
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