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Beyond Sw19: Tournament Tennis in Britain Since the 1880s - Hardcover

Jefferys, Kevin

 
9781785317767: Beyond Sw19: Tournament Tennis in Britain Since the 1880s
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1785317768 ISBN 13: 9781785317767
Verlag: Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Wimbledon has long stood at the pinnacle of British and world tennis. But, as Kevin Jefferys shows in this ground-breaking new study, Britain has a rich history of international standard play beyond SW19, in top-level tournaments and Davis Cup competitions at iconic venues such as Queen's Club, Eastbourne and Edgbaston. The book traces the fluctuating fortunes of a dozen or so tournaments that have brought the world's finest players to English shores during the 140-year history of lawn tennis. Taking a tour around different regions of the country, the author sheds fresh light on the best-known events and on largely forgotten but once high-profile tournaments held in Bristol, Torquay and Scarborough. Both a record and a celebration of England's tennis heritage, the book is packed with stories about memorable players and matches, full results for singles finals and anecdotes about quirky or controversial incidents, ranging from the courtside fire that halted a tournament final to the anti-apartheid protests that disrupted a Davis Cup tie.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Award-winning historian and tennis fan Kevin Jefferys has written extensively on British and world tennis, particularly on the evolving relationship between amateur and professional codes of the sport in the 20th century. His previous books with Pitch Publishing are Fred Perry: British Tennis Legend (2017) and British Tennis: From the Renshaws to the Murrays (2019).

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Verlag
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785317768
ISBN 13 
9781785317767
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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