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Watkins Media Limited - Racquet The Book - Paperback
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Description: The best writing on tennis from the best tennis writers in the business. Racquet was founded in 2016 to be the voice of a new tennis boom. When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late '70s and early '80s the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize personas such as Borg Evert Mc Enroe Navratilova Gerulaitis Austin King and Connors. The game was played in every park and tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as for a match. With success however came polish and tennis - - if not the game itself then how it came to be represented in the culture - - got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite. Racquet is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts in the popular culture in the skateboarding hip - hop and fashion worlds. That side of tennis was - - and is - - obscured by the tightly controlled messaging of the athletes the corporate glean of the major tournaments and the all - white attire of the country - club scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent diverse and large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the sport writ large. Featuring the work of some of today's finest writers the quarterly independent magazine highlights the art culture and style that are adjacent to the sport - - and just enough of the pro game to keep the diehards satisfied. This collection features some of the best writing from the first four years of Racquet and tackles such immediate topics as: How should tennis smell? What's the deal with Andre Agassi's private jet? What can a professional tennis player learn from Philip Roth? Why is tennis important in Lolita? How was Arthur Ashe like Muhammad Ali? And crucially what lessons have we learned from the implosion of that first tennis boom?
Title: Racquet The Book
Brand: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9781912248773
Pages: 258 Pages
Publication Date: 8/11/2020
Category: Tennis
Description: The best writing on tennis from the best tennis writers in the business. Racquet was founded in 2016 to be the voice of a new tennis boom. When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late '70s and early '80s the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize personas such as Borg Evert Mc Enroe Navratilova Gerulaitis Austin King and Connors. The game was played in every park and tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as for a match. With success however came polish and tennis - - if not the game itself then how it came to be represented in the culture - - got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite. Racquet is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts in the popular culture in the skateboarding hip - hop and fashion worlds. That side of tennis was - - and is - - obscured by the tightly controlled messaging of the athletes the corporate glean of the major tournaments and the all - white attire of the country - club scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent diverse and large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the sport writ large. Featuring the work of some of today's finest writers the quarterly independent magazine highlights the art culture and style that are adjacent to the sport - - and just enough of the pro game to keep the diehards satisfied. This collection features some of the best writing from the first four years of Racquet and tackles such immediate topics as: How should tennis smell? What's the deal with Andre Agassi's private jet? What can a professional tennis player learn from Philip Roth? Why is tennis important in Lolita? How was Arthur Ashe like Muhammad Ali? And crucially what lessons have we learned from the implosion of that first tennis boom?
Title: Racquet The Book
Brand: Watkins Media Limited
Barcode: 9781912248773
Pages: 258 Pages
Publication Date: 8/11/2020
Category: Tennis
