John McEnroe plus Anyone
Edward Said: Tennis, 1 July 1999
The Right Set: The Faber Book of Tennis
edited by Caryl Phillips.
Faber, 327 pp., £12.99, June 1999,0 571 19540 7 Show More
edited by Caryl Phillips.
Faber, 327 pp., £12.99, June 1999,
“... idiotic and unnecessary tennis knick-knacks like T-shirts and caps, there’s the sullen crowd of young pros dressed as walking billboards for Hertz, Movado or Volvo rather than as tea-sipping athletes in white flannels. Even the commentators are pros (some of them, like Cliff Drysdale and John McEnroe, excellent ones). In nearly every way tennis has become ... ”