Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. 1 The game of love 1
4. PART ONE A LEISURED CLASS
5. 2 Healthy excitement and scientific play 9
6. 3 Real tennis and the scoring system 20
7. 4 The growth of a sporting culture 28
8. 5 On the Riviera 39
9. 6 What’s wrong with women? 51
10. 7 A match out of Henry James 63
11. 8 The lonely American 74
12. 9 The Four Musketeers 80
13. 10 Working-class heroes 88
14. 11 Tennis in Weimar – and after 100
15. 12 As a man grows older 113
16. 13 Three women 123
17. PART TWO THIS SPORTING LIFE
18. 14 Home from the war 135
19. 15 Gorgeous girls 146
20. 16 Opening play 155
21. 17 Those also excluded 167
22. 18 Tennis meets feminism 177
23. PART THREE THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
24. 19 Bad behaviour 191
25. 20 Corporate tennis 209
26. 21 Women’s power 223
27. 22 Vorsprung durch Technik 230
28. 23 Celebrity stars 241
29. 24 Millennium tennis 261
30. 25 The rhetoric of sport 278
31. 26 Back to the future 292
32. BIBLIOGRAPHY 308
33. REFERENCES 314
34. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 325
35. INDEX 327