Tennis's Strangest Matches

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Robson Books Ltd
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: Reprint

Description: 276 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this hugely entertaining collection of true 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 the mad Irishman convicted of murdering a woman and travelling with her butchered body hidden in his trunk; the 6ft 2" doctor who had a sex-change and won a womens tournament; the Match of the Century between the Womens Libber and the Male Chauvinist Pig. There are matches played on board ship and on the wings of an airborne plane, the game played in full regimental dress, the All-England champion who turned out in drag and the player who rated himself so highly he played an entire match while carrying someone piggy-back. A delight for tennis fans the world over, Tenniss Strangest Matches is a unique look at the curiosities of an endlessly popular sport revealing the strawberries and cream game as youve never seen it before.

ISBN: 9781861053794