By John Grasso
ISBN-10: 0810872374
ISBN-13: 9780810872370
ISBN-10: 0810874903
ISBN-13: 9780810874909
The game of tennis has been performed in a single shape or one other for greater than 800 years. it could possibly hint its roots to video games performed by means of clergymen within the twelfth century. over the years the sport has developed from one during which the ball was once struck with the palms to the trendy video game within which rackets are used to propel the ball in way over a hundred and fifty miles in line with hour. From the game of the elite to the game performed by way of elite athletes, tennis has grown immensely some time past a hundred thirty five years and it is still one of many few wearing hobbies that's performed broadly via humans of every age and all nationalities.The historic Dictionary of Tennis offers a complete heritage of the sport via a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, photographs, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on areas, groups, terminology, and folks, together with Arthur Ashe, Bj?rn Borg, Don Budge, Chris Evert, Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Suzanne Lenglen, John McEnroe, Rafael Nadal, Martina Navratilova, and invoice Tilden. Appendixes of the individuals of the foreign Tennis corridor of status, the foremost Championships of Tennis, and the Olympic video games are integrated. This e-book is a superb entry aspect for college students, researchers, and an individual eager to be aware of extra approximately tennis.