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Ruth Greg <1986-> |
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Titolo |
Tennis : a history from American amateurs to global professionals / / Greg Ruth |
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Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) |
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Collana |
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Sport and society ; ; 138 |
Illinois scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Tennis - History |
Tennis players |
Women tennis players |
Tennis - Tournaments |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Also issued in print: 2021. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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