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41-Love: A Memoir. This unconventional sports memoir features writer Scarlett Thomas deciding to take up tennis at the age of 41. Soon, she finds herself addicted to the competition of the sport ...
Maria Sharapova is a famous Russian tennis player—a former world number one, Olympic silver medalist, and winner of five Grand Slam tournaments. She started her career at the age of four, and at 17 she made a breakthrough by defeating Serena Williams in the final of the Wimbledon tournament .
The Original 9 were a group of nine women's professional tennis players who broke away from the governing bodies of tennis in 1970 to launch their own professional tour, the Virginia Slims Circuit, which later evolved into the modern WTA Tour.
When Althea Gibson dreamed of joining the big American tennis leagues, she was denied because she was Black. In Britain, Angela Buxton dreamed of joining the best tennis clubs there, but she was ...
Collins covered numerous sports, athletes and teams for The Boston Globe, including the Boston Red Sox during their "Impossible Dream" 1967 season. [ 5 ] During Collins' years with The Boston Globe , he was a general and political columnist and also wrote for the paper's travel section.
Nicholas James Bollettieri (July 31, 1931 [1] – December 4, 2022) [2] was an American tennis coach. He pioneered the concept of a tennis boarding school, and helped develop many leading tennis players during the past decades, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, and Maria Sharapova.
Sociology of sport, alternately referred to as sports sociology, is a sub-discipline of sociology which focuses on sports as social phenomena. It is an area of study concerned with the relationship between sociology and sports, and also various socio-cultural structures, patterns, and organizations or groups involved with sport.
Below are sub-categories for tennis players with Wikipedia articles. (See Wikipedia:NTENNIS and WP:GNG on Wikipedia notability for tennis players.). See also List of male tennis players and List of female tennis players for extensive lists of the top ranked players in tennis history.