A fascinating and fun book

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	• Tennis's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Baseline Blunders, Clay Court Wonders, and Lucky Lobs (Most Wanted) Floyd Conner Potomac Books Inc., 2002 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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A fascinating and fun book

"Tennis's Most Wanted" is a really interesting and fun to read book that unearths amazing stuff about tennis and its most endearing and eccentric characters.
For example, W.C. Fields played tennis while holding a racket and a martini. Fausto Gardini was nicknamed "Vampire" because he used to bite tennis balls. Hans Redl lost an arm in World War II, but returned and won Davis Cup matches!
The best chapters are "Teen Phenoms," "Court Artists," "Embarrassing Losses," "Family Ties," "Fanatics" and "Believe It or Not."
You'll really enjoy this neat book that covers tennis from
strange but true angles.

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Tennis history is filled with unusual, bizarre, and unbelievable stories. Tennis's Most Wanted? chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and officials in tennis history. Its seventy lists describe in detail tennis?s colorful characters, surprising matches, inept players, bizarre nicknames, outrageous outfits, embarrassing losses, errant shots, terrible tantrums, and more. Only here will you learn that Joshua Pim won Wimbledon in 1893 and 1894 under an assumed name because he was afraid that being a tennis player would hurt his medical practice. Frank Riesley and Sydney Smith settled their 1904 Wimbledon semifinal match by flipping a coin. M. H. de Amorin served seventeen consecutive double faults in a 1937 match at Wimbledon. Renee Richards played in the 1955 U.S. Open as a man and, after a sex-change operation, as a woman in 1975. W. C. Fields played tennis with a racket in one hand and a martini in the other. Tony Pickard lost a match at the Italian Open when a linesman left to buy ice cream. ?Gorgeous Gussy? Moran did a striptease at a press conference, and Pat Stewart wrote her phone number on her panties for the 1961 Wimbledon. You can find all this and more in Tennis's Most Wanted?

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