Description
Spending a year alongside the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours, the author goes beyond the glamour of tournaments to reveal the demanding, often volatile reality of life on the circuit. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with celebrated players, lesser-known competitors, families, agents, promoters, and media figures, the book examines the personalities and power structures shaping professional tennis in 1990. It explores the pressures of competition, the influence of television and sponsorship, and the wheeling and dealing behind the sport’s polished public image. Sharp, observant, and unsparing, this immersive account offers a candid portrait of tennis as both a thrilling spectacle and a complicated business.
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paperback
Bloomsbury
Published Jan 1, 1991
438 pages
ISBN: 0747510415
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First Published
1991
Language
eng
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