(Read now) Tie Breaker: Jimmy Van Alen and Tennis in the 20th Century
• Eleanor Dwight •
| #3887720 in Books | Maria Teresa Train Mtt Scala | 2010-04-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.23 x.51 x7.26l,1.44 | File Name: 1905377401 | 196 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| and Vanderbilt money falling on him in great quantities throughout his life|By Vanploy|Jimmy Van Alen had more to do with modern tennis than most people realize. Eleanor Dwight explores his role as a participant in the early part of the 20th century, his emergence as a leader during his captaincy of Cambridge tennis in the 20's, and his advocacy of a modern game in the 50's a||An interesting work about a person who dared to question the traditional scoring system of tennis and in part prevailed. This book brings with it the flavor of tennis as it has changed in the US since the 1880s to the present. Jimmy Van Allen for all his penc
Tie Breaker tells the history of tennis in the 20th century from its grass court, amateur play beginnings to the celebrity, money-driven, and world-televised, professional sport it is today. The story begins with the first national championships at Newport's Casino, the cradle of American tennis and continues to the mid-century when the sport became popular and less exclusive, and concludes by talking about tennis today with its huge money prizes, and appeal as a specta...
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