To most modern day tennis fans, it was impossible to believe that
until the late 1960s pro tennis players—that is those who played
openly for prize money—were banned from competing in the world's
major tournaments. Before this time, the great contests such as
Wimbledon were exclusive to so-called amateurs. Amateur tennis
players were meant to compete only for glory. Though this division
arose the "pro tour" in the 1930s, and it endured for
forty years. In The Pros, The Forgotten Era of
Tennis, author Peter Underwood explains why professional
players were forced into what was often called the traveling circus
where these sporting outcasts played each other during long and
rather tatty tours all over the world. Focusing on the eight
champions who dominated the pro era beginning in 1930 with the
ultimately tragic figure of "Big" Bill Tilden, this book follows
each pro champion through the post-1962 Grand Slam pro career of
Rod Laver, who then helped usher in the modern-era of pro tennis
with the start of the "Open" Era in 1968.
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