Bibliograph

The circuit, a tennis odyssey, Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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The circuit, a tennis odyssey, Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The circuit

Responsibility statement

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Sub title

a tennis odyssey

Summary

Chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it's divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from winter's Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall's U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life

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Tennis odyssey

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