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Jon Day: The Tennis Craze, 8 October 2020
A People’s History of Tennis
by David Berry.
Pluto, 247 pp., £14.99, May,978 0 7453 3965 8 Show More
by David Berry.
Pluto, 247 pp., £14.99, May,
“... were exclusive, but not too exclusive (unless you were of the wrong race or class): men and women, young and old, could play together, and flirt while they did so. If the tennis club was the main reason tennis entrenched itself as the chosen sport of middle-class professionals in the interwar years, what allowed it to become one of the most popular global ... ”