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Tennis : a history from American amateurs to global professionals / Greg Ruth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruth, Greg, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Sport and society ; 138.
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Sport and society ; 138
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tennis--History.
- Tennis.
- Tennis players.
- Women tennis players.
- Tennis--Tournaments.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Tennis amateurs and tennis professionals
- Amateur Associations along the American Atlantic Coast
- The West Coast game
- The cause célèbre of the pioneering professional
- Depression-Era developments in amateur and professional tennis
- Wartime Southern California professionals
- The cultural contexts of mid-century women's tennis
- The "Kramer Karavan"
- The world champion from "The Wrong Side of the Tracks"
- Tennis Opens
- The rise and demise of world championship tennis
- The impact of sports agents and agencies on professional tennis
- Women's professional tennis in the early Open era
- Conclusion: Professional tennis as global entertainment.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 26, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-252-05279-X
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