John McEnroe plus Anyone
Edward Said: Tennis, 1 July 1999
The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis
edited by Caryl Phillips.
Faber, 327 pp., £12.99, June 1999,0 571 19540 7 Show More
edited by Caryl Phillips.
Faber, 327 pp., £12.99, June 1999,
“... partly because they never saw even the great postwar champions like Ted Schroeder, Frank Parker, Eric Sturgess, and there are no videos of what Wadie quaintly refers to as ‘vintage’ players, partly because today’s champions are focused so exclusively on tennis, with endless exercise and hitting drills and virtually nothing else to do except take care ... ”