Tennis : a history from American amateurs to global professionals / / Greg Ruth

• Autore: Ruth Greg <1986->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 317 pages)
• Disciplina: 796.342
• Soggetto topico: Tennis - History; Tennis players; Women tennis players; Tennis - Tournaments
• Note generali: Also issued in print: 2021.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tennis
• ISBN: 0-252-05279-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826611603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sport and society ; ; 138.; Illinois scholarship online.