Name: Tennis: A History From American Amateurs to Global Professionals (Sport and Society) (en Inglés)
Price: 119.34 PEN
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Author: Greg Ruth
ISBN: 9780252085888

portada Tennis: A History From American Amateurs to Global Professionals (Sport and Society) (en Inglés)

Tennis: A History From American Amateurs to Global Professionals (Sport and Society) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Illinois Press

Autor

Greg Ruth

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780252085888

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa

Tennis: A History From American Amateurs to Global Professionals (Sport and Society) (en Inglés)

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Analyzing how tennis turned pro The arrival of the Open era in 1968 was a watershed in the history of tennis--the year that marked its advent as a professionalized sport. Merging wide-angle history with individual stories of players and off-the-court figures, Greg Ruth charts tennis's evolution into the game we watch today. His vivid account moves from the cloistered world of nineteenth-century lawn tennis through the longtime amateur-professional divide and the battles over commercialization that raged from the 1920s until 1968. From there, Ruth details the post-1968 expansion of the game as it was transformed by bankable superstars, a popular women's tour, rival governing bodies, and sponsorship money. What emerges is a fascinating history of the economics and politics that made tennis a decisive, if unlikely, force in the creation of modern-day sports entertainment. Comprehensive and engaging, Tennis tells the interlocking stories of the figures and factors that birthed the professional game.