Tennis is one of the world's most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world's most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on …
From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain' s social history. In the first compreh…
From the palace courts of Henry VIII to the perennial glorious failures of British players on Wimbledon's Centre Court, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain's social history. In this comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in …