It can trace its roots to games played by monks in the 12th century. Through the years the game has evolved from one in which the ball was struck with the hands to the modern game in which rackets are used to propel the ball in excess of miles per hour. From the sport of the elite to the sport played by elite athletes, tennis has grown immensely in the past years and it remains one of the few sporting pastimes thatis played extensively by people of all ages and all nationalities. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about tennis.
An easy-to-use guide to nearly 1, information sources on sports, exercise, and fitness. Contains essays concerning various sports or sports topics, from acrobatics to yachting, giving both American and international coverage. Hornblum Allen M. Author : Allen M. They transformed their respective athletic disciplines and captured the imagination of a nation. Tilden was a showman off the court as well. He appeared in numerous comedies and dramas on both stage and screen and was a Renaissance man who wrote more than two dozen fiction and nonfiction books, including several successful tennis instructions books.
After he left competitive tennis in the late s, he faced a lurid fall from grace when he was arrested after an incident involving an underage boy in his car. Tilden served seven months in prison and later attempted to explain his questionable behavior to the public, only to be ostracized from the tennis circuit.
Despite his glorious career in tennis, his final years were much constrained and lived amid considerable public shunning. Leonard David J. Author : David J. Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century.
It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminalized unpacks the conversation between black athletes and colorblind discourse, while challenging the assumptions of contemporary sports culture. The contributors in this provocative collection push the conversation beyond the playing field and beyond the racial landscape of sports culture to explore the connections between sports representations and a broader history of racialized violence.
It looks at how the actions and choices of the pioneering activist players were simultaneously shaped by, and had a part in shaping, larger social movements committed to challenging the status quo and working towards increased economic equality for women. Taking an intersectional approach, the book assesses the significance of players from Althea Gibson and Martina Navratilova to Venus and Serena Williams, illuminating our understanding of the relationship between sport, social justice and wider society.
It is also a fascinating read for the general tennis fan. Sports and Mathematics The universal popularity of sports has inspired a goldmine of interesting examples for mathematicians, sport fans, and for the teaching and learning. Sports provide an inexhaustible source of fascinating and challenging problems.
Today most sports can be studied from a mathematical perspective to valid quantitative results. Mathematical methods are applied to estimate an athlete's chances of success, identify the best training conditions, and to measure their effectiveness. Applied probability and statistics has been instrumental in analysis of vast amount of sport data available.
Probabilistic Monte Carlo method are used for simulation model. In fact, it is generally recognized that the use of sports marks an exciting new direction in teaching and learning mathematics and related subjects.
With the present state of education, ideas that connect mathematics to popular activities like sports is much needed. The goal of this book is to find a way to delight sport lovers about mathematics and mathematicians about sports to help them to see their connections.
Its hope is to bring a variety of applications within the reach of sport fans with some mathematics background or interests. This useful two-volume set will provide buyers of subject encyclopedias with a substantial amount of valuable information they can use in making their purchasing decisions. It will also provide all types of librarians and their patrons with a quick, one-stop method for locating the appropriate subject encyclopedias for their needs and for locating articles in the encyclopedias.
Librarians who specialize in bibliographic instruction will also find it to be a useful tool for teaching students how to locate needed information. Considered the "bible" of the tennis world, "Bud Collins' Tennis Encyclopedia" provides thorough statistics and presents a history of the sport, from its country club beginnings in to the billion-dollar industry it is today. The latest edition includes biographies of the best players, rules of the game, Hall of Fame facts, world rankings since , and more.
Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of Latino popular culture, covering people, celebrations, food, sports, events, literature and film, fashion, and other topics; arranged alphabetically from A to L. From the outbreak of the Cold War to the rise of the United States as the last remaining superpower, the years following World War II were filled with momentous events and rapid change.
Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The author's personal relationships with major tennis stars offer insights into the world of professional tennis found nowhere else"--Publisher's website Includes index Section I.
Tennis year-by-year -- 1. Roots of the game -- 2. Golden age -- 3. Game divided -- 4. Open era -- Section II. The major championships -- 5. The majors and the grand slam -- 6.
Australian championships -- 7. French championships -- 8. Wimbledon -- 9. International play -- Davis Cup -- Collins, Bud, and Zander Hollander, eds. Bud Collins' Tennis This is an invaluable resource for all things tennis. Selected Bibliography Collins, Bud. Lippincott, , 68, History, Culture and Politics Robert J. Baltzell, E. New York: Free Press. Collins, B. Bud Collins. Retrieved September 5, , from www. Journal of Sport History, 18 1 , 81— The Bud Collins history of tennis : An authoritative encyclopedia and record book.
Martina Navratilova is a retired tennis player who is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, women's tennis
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