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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Racket games > Tennis
Andy Murray is one of Britain's best loved athletes. On the 7th
July 2013 he became the first British man to lift the Wimbledon
trophy for 77 years. His new book, Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven, will
take us on a personal journey through his career. Focusing on the
last two dramatic years, he will share with us his thoughts on the
pivotal moments of his playing career and allow us a glimpse into
his world - his intense training regime, his close-knit team and
his mental and physical battle to get to the very top. This very
personal book will be a stunning celebration of Andy's career so
far.
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The series on Sport is one of the most unique among all the
categories. It gives ample knowledge on Football, Golf, Basketball,
Tennis and Cricket. Each book tells about the origin of the game,
its rules and the people who have excelled in each of them.
Bahrami also talks about his friendships with some of the great
tennis players - Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Ilie
Nastase, Henri Leconte - and many others. Inspirational, funny and
truly original, this is much more than a sports autobiography. It
is the story of one man's success against all the odds, set against
the backdrop of a country in the midst of revolution and war. But,
above all, it is Mansour Bahrami's undiminished passion for tennis
and his amazing adventures on and off the court which make this
book an exceptional read.
Racquet was founded in 2016 to be the voice of a new tennis boom.
When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late '70s and early
'80s, the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize
personas, such as Borg, Evert, McEnroe, Navratilova, Gerulaitis,
Austin, King, and Connors. The game was played in every park, and
tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as
for a match. With success, however, came polish, and tennis-if not
the game itself, then how it came to be represented in the
culture-got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a
virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite. Racquet
is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the
tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts,
in the popular culture, in the skateboarding, hip-hop, and fashion
worlds. That side of tennis was-and is-obscured by the tightly
controlled messaging of the athletes, the corporate glean of the
major tournaments, and the all-white attire of the country-club
scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent, diverse, and
large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the
sport writ large. Featuring the work of some of today's finest
writers, the quarterly independent magazine highlights the art,
culture, and style that are adjacent to the sport-and just enough
of the pro game to keep the diehards satisfied. This collection
features some of the best writing from the first four years of
Racquet and tackles such immediate topics as: How should tennis
smell? What's the deal with Andre Agassi's private jet? What can a
professional tennis player learn from Philip Roth? Why is tennis
important in Lolita? How was Arthur Ashe like Muhammad Ali? And,
crucially, what lessons have we learned from the implosion of that
first tennis boom?
Wimbledon has long stood at the pinnacle of British and world
tennis. But, as Kevin Jefferys shows in this ground-breaking new
study, Britain has a rich history of international standard play
beyond SW19, in top-level tournaments and Davis Cup competitions at
iconic venues such as Queen's Club, Eastbourne and Edgbaston. The
book traces the fluctuating fortunes of a dozen or so tournaments
that have brought the world's finest players to English shores
during the 140-year history of lawn tennis. Taking a tour around
different regions of the country, the author sheds fresh light on
the best-known events and on largely forgotten but once
high-profile tournaments held in Bristol, Torquay and Scarborough.
Both a record and a celebration of England's tennis heritage, the
book is packed with stories about memorable players and matches,
full results for singles finals and anecdotes about quirky or
controversial incidents, ranging from the courtside fire that
halted a tournament final to the anti-apartheid protests that
disrupted a Davis Cup tie.
Boris's story is almost without parallel in tennis, from
astonishing teenage talent, to Wimbledon champion, to a renowned
television commentator, manager, and coach of one of the world's
greatest contemporary players, Novak Djokovic. In this wonderful
illustrated autobiography, Boris shares his unique story, tracing
his career through the many changes in the game but which has, at
its heart, his loving relationship with Wimbledon, the place where
it all began for him. Boris talks frankly about his own career, how
it transformed his life and those of so many others, reflecting on
what it was like to play in the era of McEnroe, Connors, Lendl and
Edberg - about the highs and lows of his life as played on the
grand stage of Centre Court, and tennis' other great arenas; the
changes that have transpired in fitness, the media, the partying,
the equipment, the tactics, the personalities, the technology, and
the commerce.
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