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OverviewTennis history is filled with unusual, bizarre, and unbelievable stories. Tennis's Most Wanted chronicles seven hundred 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, or that 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 sexchange 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 Tenni's Most Wanted. Full Product DetailsAuthor: FLOYD D CONNERPublisher: Potomac Books Inc Imprint: Potomac Books Inc Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.40cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9781574883633ISBN 10: 1574883631 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 June 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationFloyd Conner is the author of many popular sports books and is creator of The Only Golf Calendar. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |