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Unbelievable tennis tales: bizarre matches, eccentric players, and historical oddities.
Tennis's Strangest Matches
extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of tennis
$30.27
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256 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2016
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Summary
Tennis’s Most Outlandish Encounters
In this hugely entertaining collection of stories taken from over a hundred years of world tennis history, award-winning sports historian Peter Seddon has gathered together the most extraordinary events ever to occur on a tennis court.
They include the Wimbledon final between the tea-drinking vicar and a convicted murderer, and the ‘Match of the Century’ between the ‘Women’s Libber’ and the ‘Male Chauvinist Pig’. There are matches played o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910232958 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1910232955 |
| Author: | Peter Seddon |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Portico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Peter Seddon
Peter Seddon is also the author of A Football Compendium, The Law’s Strangest Cases, and Tennis’s Strangest Matches.
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