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Tennis's Most WantedTM: The Top 10 Book of Baseline Blunders, Clay Court Wonders, and Lucky Lobs
Floyd Conner
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Description for Tennis's Most WantedTM: The Top 10 Book of Baseline Blunders, Clay Court Wonders, and Lucky Lobs
Paperback. Chronicles 700 of the most outrageous tennis players, coaches and officials in the history of the sport. Its 70 lists describe in detail colourful characters, inept players, bizarre nicknames, terrible tantrums, and more. Num Pages: 304 pages, b&w halftones. BIC Classification: WDKX; WSJR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Tennis history is filled with unusual, bizarre, and unbelievable stories. Tennis's Most Wanted™ chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and officials in tennis history. Its seventy lists describe in detail tennis’s colorful characters, surprising matches, inept players, bizarre nicknames, outrageous outfits, embarrassing losses, errant shots, terrible tantrums, and more. Only here will you learn that Joshua Pim won Wimbledon in 1893 and 1894 under an assumed name because he was afraid that being a tennis player would hurt his medical practice. Frank Riesley and Sydney Smith settled their 1904 Wimbledon semifinal match by flipping a coin. M. H. de Amorin served seventeen consecutive double faults in a 1937 match at Wimbledon. Renee Richards played in the 1955 U.S. Open as a man and, after a sex-change operation, as a woman in 1975. W. C. Fields played tennis with a racket in one hand and a martini in the other. Tony Pickard lost a match at the Italian Open when a linesman left to buy ice cream. Gorgeous Gussy” Moran did a striptease at a press conference, and Pat Stewart wrote her phone number on her panties for the 1961 Wimbledon. You can find all this and more in Tennis's Most Wanted™
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc.
Condition
New
Series
Most Wanted
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781574883633
SKU
V9781574883633
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Floyd Conner
Floyd Conner is the author of many popular sports books and is creator of The Only Golf Calendar. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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