Game, Set, and Match
The Tennis Boom of the 1960s and '70s
Published on 26. January 2016
229 pages
978-1-5040-2758-8 (ISBN)
Description
The leading players and outstanding matches of two thrilling decades in tennis history
From Rod Laver's amateur Grand Slam in 1962 to the first US Open held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, legendary sportswriter Herbert Warren Wind captures the grace and drama of modern tennis in this brilliant collection drawn from the pages of the New Yorker.
The era's biggest names, including Margaret Court, Chris Evert, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, and Pancho Gonzales, thrill the crowds of Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and Forest Hills, and America's Davis Cup team battles patriotic linesmen and frenzied fans in an epic showdown against the Romanians in Bucharest. In "Mrs. King versus Mr. Riggs," Wind paints a witty and evocative portrait of Billy Jean King's historic beatdown of Bobby Riggs, and in "Forest Hills and the Final Between Connors and Borg," he vividly recounts one of the wildest and woolliest tournaments in the sport's history.
Rendered with the same authority and eloquence that led the New York Times to declare Wind the dean of American golf writers, these dispatches from center court testify to the celebrated journalist's passion and versatility.
From Rod Laver's amateur Grand Slam in 1962 to the first US Open held at the National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, legendary sportswriter Herbert Warren Wind captures the grace and drama of modern tennis in this brilliant collection drawn from the pages of the New Yorker.
The era's biggest names, including Margaret Court, Chris Evert, John Newcombe, Arthur Ashe, and Pancho Gonzales, thrill the crowds of Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and Forest Hills, and America's Davis Cup team battles patriotic linesmen and frenzied fans in an epic showdown against the Romanians in Bucharest. In "Mrs. King versus Mr. Riggs," Wind paints a witty and evocative portrait of Billy Jean King's historic beatdown of Bobby Riggs, and in "Forest Hills and the Final Between Connors and Borg," he vividly recounts one of the wildest and woolliest tournaments in the sport's history.
Rendered with the same authority and eloquence that led the New York Times to declare Wind the dean of American golf writers, these dispatches from center court testify to the celebrated journalist's passion and versatility.
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Person
Herbert Warren Wind (1916-2005) was a longtime staff writer at the
New Yorker and a writer and editor for
Sports Illustrated. The dean of American golf writers, he coined the term "Amen Corner" to describe the famous stretch of the Augusta National Golf Course and co-authored books with Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus. A native of Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind graduated from Yale University and earned a master's degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge. He began playing golf at a young age and competed in the 1950 British Amateur Championship. His elegant, richly detailed prose matched his meticulous golf course attire of a tweed jacket, shirt, tie, and cap-even in the warmest weather. Wind wrote or edited fourteen books during his lifetime, including
The Story of American Golf (1948),
The Gilded Age of Sport (1961),
Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book (1971) and
Following Through (1985). The United States Golf Association's annual book award is named in his honor, and in 2008 he was posthumously inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. According to his friend Ben Crenshaw, "every time you read Herbert Warren Wind, you get a history lesson, a golf lesson, and a life lesson."
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Laver Completes His Grand Slam (1962)
- The Davis Cup Goes Southwest (1964)
- Horseshoe Piazza, Horseshoe Stadium (1965)
- Mrs. Wightman and Mr. Newcombe (1967)
- The First Open Wimbledon (1968)
- September Song-Gonzales and Rosewall (1968)
- Margaret Court's Big Year (1970)
- Texas and the New Entrepreneurs (1971)
- The Emergence of Chris Evert (1971)
- The Summer of 1972: Kramer, Laver and Emerson, Newcombe, Evert, Hopman (1972)
- Cupa Davis (1972)
- The First Hundred Years (1973)
- Mrs. King versus Mr. Riggs (1973)
- Ashe Reaches Maturity (1975)
- The Ever More Complex World of Tennis (1976)
- Forest Hills and the Final Between Connors and Borg (1976)
- The Wimbledon Centenary (1977)
- The Incredible Tennis Explosion (1977)
- A New Era Begins: Flushing Meadow Park (1978)
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
