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Tennis

Name: Tennis
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252043895
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A History from American Amateurs to Global Professionals

Autor: Greg Ruth

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: University of Illinois Press

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Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Greg Ruth

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2021

strony

368

EAN

9780252043895

ISBN

0252043898

Enbook ID

35410691

Wydawca

University of Illinois Press

Waga

758

Wymiary

156 x 235 x 28

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Analyzing how tennis turned pro

The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis's evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women's tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment.

Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.