In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Centre Court was a stage set
worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was
on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in
the history of the game. He just needed to cling to his trajectory.
So in the last few moments of daylight, Centre Court witnessed a
coronation. Only it wasn't a crowning for the Swiss heir apparent
but for a swashbuckling Spaniard. Twenty-two-year-old Rafael Nadal
prevailed, in five sets, in what was, according to the author,
"essentially a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for
everything that is right about tennis--a festival of skill,
accuracy, grace, strength, speed, endurance, determination, and
sportsmanship." It was also the encapsulation of a fascinating
rivalry, hard fought and of historic proportions. In the tradition
of John McPhee's classic Levels of the Game, Strokes of Genius
deconstructs this defining moment in sport, using that match as the
backbone of a provocative, thoughtful, and entertaining look at the
science, art, psychology, technology, strategy, and personality
that go into a single tennis match.With vivid, intimate detail,
Wertheim re-creates this epic battle in a book that is both a study
of the mechanics and art of the game and the portrait of a rivalry
as dramatic as that of Ali-Frazier, Palmer-Nicklaus, and
McEnroe-Borg.
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