Books and journal articles
Tim Adams, On Being John McEnroe, London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2003.
Andre Agassi, Open: An Autobiography, London: Harper Collins, 2009.
Martin Amis, ‘Tennis Personalities’, in David Remnick, ed., The Only Game in Town: Sports Writing from the New Yorker, New York: Random House, 2010, pp 374–376.
Martin Amis, ‘Tennis: The Women’s Game’ in Visiting Mrs Nabokov and Other Excursions, London: Penguin, 1993, pp 60–68.
Vijay Amritraj, with Richard Evans, Vijay! From Madras to Hollywood via Wimbledon, London: Libri Mundi, 1990.
David Andrews and Steven J Jackson, eds., Sports Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity, London: Routledge, 2001.
Arthur Ashe, with Frank Deford, Portrait in Motion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
E Digby Baltzell, Sporting Gentlemen: Men’s Tennis from the Age of Honour to the Cult of the Superstar, New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Charles Baudelaire, The Mirror of Art: Critical Studies, London: Phaidon, 1955.
Emmanuel Bayle, ‘Le Dévelopment de la Féderation Française de Tennis sous la Présidence de Philippe Chatrier, 1975–1993, Un Modèle Stratégique pour le Mouvement Sportif et Olympique,’ in Patrick Clastres et Paul Dietschy, eds., Paume et Tennis en France XV–XX Siècle, Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2009.
Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1954.
Boris Becker, with Robert Lübenoff and Helmut Sorge, The Player: The Autobiography, London: Bantam Books, 2005.
Derek Birley, Land of Sport and Glory: Sport and British Society 1887–1910, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
Mary Blume, Côte d’Azur: Inventing the French Riviera, London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
Peter Bodo, Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in the Harsh New World of Professional Tennis, New York: Scribner, 1995.
Mihir Bose, The Spirit of the Game: How Sport Made the Modern World, London: Constable, 2011.
Dennis Brailsford, British Sport: A Social History, Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 1992.
Mabel Brookes, Crowded Galleries, London: Heinemann, 1956.
Don Budge, Don Budge: A Tennis Memoir, New York: the Viking Press, 1969.
Herbert Chipp, Recollections, London: Merritt and Hatcher, 1898
Kenneth Clark, Another Part of the Wood: A Self Portrait, London: John Murray, 1974.
Patrick Clastres & Paul Dietschy, eds., Paume et Tennis en France XV–XX Siècle, Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2009.
Gianni Clerici, Tennis, London: Octopus Books, 1976.
Gianni Clerici, Divina Suzanne Lenglen, la Piu Grande Tennista del Mondo, Roma: Fandango Libria, 2010.
Steven Connor, A Philosophy of Sport, London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
Allison Danzig and Peter Schwed, eds., The Fireside Book of Tennis, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Sue Davidson, Changing the Game: The Stories of Tennis Champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson, Seattle: Seal Press, 1997.
Frank Deford, Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy, London: Victor Gollancz, 1977.
Sundiata Djata, Blacks at the Net Vol I, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, London: Harper Collins, 2008.
Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning, Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Larry Engelman, The Goddess and the American Girl: The Story of Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Dominic Erdozain, The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010.
Richard Evans, McEnroe: A Rage for Perfection, London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1982.
Richard Evans, Open Tennis: The First Twenty Years: The Players, the Politics, the Pressures, the Passion and the Great Matches, London: Bloomsbury, 1988.
Karen Farrington, Anna Kournikova, London: Unanimous, 2001.
Yann le Faou, ‘“Les Mousquetaires”, Ambassadeurs de la France’, in Patrick Clastres and Paul Dietschy, eds., Paume et Tennis en France, Paris Nouveau Monde 2009.
Jean Michel Faure, ‘National Identity and the Sporting Champion: Jean Borotra and French History’, International Journal of the History of Sport, volume 13, no. 1, 1996, pp. 86–100.
Marshall Jon Fisher, A Terrible Splendour, New York: Three Rivers Press, 2009.
Gordon Forbes, A Handful of Summers, London: Heinemann, 1978.
Paul Gallico, ‘Funny Game’, in Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport, London: Simon and Schuster, 1988, pp. 137–150.
David Gautier, ‘Tennis et Politique: l’example de Jean Borotra’, in Patrick Clastres and Paul Dietschy, eds., Paume et Tennis en France XV–XX Siècle, Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2009.
Antoine (Coco) Gentien, Aventures d’un Joueur de Tennis, Paris-Genève: La Palatine, 1953.
Michael D Giardina, ‘Global Hingis: flexible citizenship and the trans-national celebrity’, in David L Andrews and Steven J Jackson, eds., pp. 201–217.
David Gilbert, ‘The Vicar’s Daughter and the Goddess of Tennis: Cultural Geographies of Sporting Femininity and Bodily Practices in Edwardian Suburbia’, Cultural Geographies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. 187–207.
Heiner Gillmeister, Tennis: A Cultural History, London: Leicester University Press, 1997.
Ricardo Pancho Gonzales, Man with a Racket; The Autobiography of Pancho Gonzales as Told to Cy Rice, London: Thomas Yozelof, 1959.
David Gray, Shades of Gray: Tennis Writings of David Gray, ed., Lance Tingay, London: Collins, 1988.
Pat Griffin, Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport, Champagne, Ill: Human Kinetics, 1998.
Allen Guttmann, From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports, New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Neil Harman, Court Confidential: Inside the World of Tennis, London: The Robson Press, 2013.
Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London: Methuen, 1979.
Julius D. Heldman, ‘The Style of Jack Kramer’, in Allison Danzig and Peter Schwed, eds., The Fireside Book of Tennis, pp. 292–282.
Jon Henderson, The Last Champion: The Life of Fred Perry, London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2009.
David Hilliard, ‘UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality’, Victorian Studies, Winter, 1982, pp. 181–210.
George Hillyard, Forty Years of First Class Tennis, London: Williams and Norgate, 1924.
Jane Hoffman, ‘The Sutton Sisters’, in Allison Danzig and Peter Schwed, eds., The Fireside Book of Tennis, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.
Catherine Horwood, ‘Dressing Like a Champion: Women’s Tennis Wear in Interwar England’, in Christopher Breward, Becky Conekin and Caroline Cox., eds., The Englishness of English Dress, Oxford: Berg, 2002, pp. 45–60.
Johnette Howard, The Rivals: Chris Evert vs Martina Navratilova: Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship, London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2005.
Patrick Howarth, When the Riviera Was Ours, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture, London: Temple Smith, 1979 (1949).
Joe Humphreys, Foul Play: What’s Wrong With Sport, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2008.
Helen Hull Jacobs, Beyond the Game, London: Methuen, 1950.
Eric N Jensen, Body By Weimar: Athletes, Gender and German Modernity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Donald Katz, Just Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World, New York: Random House, 1994.
Billie Jean King, with Frank Deford, The Autobiography of Billie Jean King, London: Granada, 1982.
Jack Kramer, with Frank Deford, The Game: My Forty Years in Tennis, London: André Deutsch, 1979.
Roman Krznaric, The First Beautiful Game: Stories of Obsession in Real Tennis, Oxford: Ronaldson, 2006.
Kyle Kusz, ‘Andre Agassi and Generation X: Reading White Masculinity in 1990s America’, in Andrews and Steven J Jackson, eds., Sports Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity, London: Routledge, 2001, pp.
Robert Lake, Social Exclusion in British Tennis: A History of Privilege and Prejudice, unpublished PhD., Brunel University, 2008.
A L Laney, Covering the Court: A Fifty Year Love Affair with the Game of Tennis, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Mémoires Sans Mémoire, Paris: Editions Laffont, 1975.
Stephen Liégeard, La Côte d’Azur, Paris: Maison Quintain, 1882.
Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Tara Magdalinski, Sport, Technology and the Body: The Nature of Performance, London: Routledge, 2009.
Alice Marble with Dale Leatherman, Courting Danger, New York: St Martins Press, 1991.
Dan Maskell, From Where I Sit, London: Collins, 1988.
Peter Maxton, From Palm to Power: The Evolution of the Racket, London: Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, 2008.
John McEnroe, with James Kaplan, Serious: the Autobiography, London: Time Warner, 2003.
Mandy Merck, ‘Hard, Fast and Beautiful’, in Mandy Merck, In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies, New York: New York University Press, 2000, pp. 52–70.
Tatiana Metternicht, Bericht eines Ungewöhnlichen Lebens, München: Langen Müller, 1987.
Edward D Miller, Tomboys, Pretty Boys and Outspoken Women, Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 2011.
A Wallis Myers, Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad, London: George Newnes, 1903.
A Wallis Myers, Memory’s Parade, London: Methuen, 1932.
Martina Navratilova, with George Vecsey, Being Myself, London: Harper Collins, 1985.
George Orwell, ‘The Sporting Spirit’, in George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945–1950, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Robert D Osborn, Lawn Tennis: Its Players and How to Play, London: Strahan and Company, 1881.
Jeffrey Pearson, Lottie Dod: Champion of Champions: The Story of an Athlete, Birkenhead: Countrywise Ltd., 1988.
Fred J Perry, My Story, London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d.,
Fred Perry, Fred Perry: An Autobiography, London: Hutchinson, 1984.
James W Pipkin, Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Biographies, Columbia: Missouri University Press, 2008.
Len and Shirley Richardson, Anthony Wilding: A Sporting Life, Canterbury: Canterbury University Press, 2005.
George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society, London: Sage, 2004.
Mary Roberts, ‘Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Fashion in 1920s France’, in Whitney Chadwick and Tirza True Latimer, eds., The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars, New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 65–94.
Raphael Samuel, The Lost World of British Communism, London: Verso, 2006.
Monica Seles, Getting a Grip: On My Game, My Body, My Mind . . . Myself, London: JR Books, 2009.
Kenneth Silver, Making Paradise: Art, Modernity and the Myth of the French Riviera, Cambridge, Ma: MIT Press, 2001.
Barry Smart, The Sport Star: Modern Sport and the Cultural Economy of Sporting Celebrity, London: Sage, 2005.
Nancy Spain, “Teach” Tennant: The Story of Eleanor Tennant The Greatest Tennis Coach in the World, London: Werner Laurie, 1953.
Kevin Starr, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace: 1940–1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
René Stauffer, The Roger Federer Story: Quest for Perfection, New York: New Chapter Press, 2006.
Egon Steinkampf, Gottfried von Cramm: Der Tennis Baron, München: Herbig, 1990.
William Talbert, Playing For Life: Billy Talbert’s Story, London: Victor Gollancz, 1959.
Steve Tignor, High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and the Untold Story of Tennis’s Fiercest Rivalry, London: Harper Collins, 2011.
Lance Tingay, Tennis: A Pictorial History, London: Collins, 1977.
Teddy Tinling, Sixty Years in Tennis, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983.
T Todd, The Tennis Players: From Pagan Rites to Strawberries and Cream, Guernsey: Vallancey Press, 1979.
Neil Tranter, Sport, Economy and Society in Britain, 1750–1914, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1949.
Sylvain Villaret et Philippe Tétart, ‘Yannick Noah au Miroir des Médias’, in Patrick Clastres & Paul Dietschy, Paume et Tennis en France XV–XX Siècle, Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2009.
Helen Walker, ‘Tennis’, in Tony Mason, ed., Sport in Britain: A Social History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
David Foster Wallace, ‘Federer Both Flesh and Not’, in David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays, London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012.
David Foster Wallace, ‘Democracy and Commerce at the U S Open’, in David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays, London: Hamish Hamilton, 2012.
Susan Ware, Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Patricia Campbell Warner, ‘Taking up Tennis’, in Patricia Campbell Warner, When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.
A M Waser, ‘Tennis in France, 1880–1930’, International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 13, no.2, 1996, pp. 166–176, Volume 7, 2005.
Anthony Wilding, On the Court and Off, London: Methuen, 1912.
Helen Wills, Fifteen Thirty, New York: Scribner, 1937.
Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts, London: I. B. Tauris, 2000.
Herbert Warren Wind, Game Set and Match: The Tennis Boom of the Sixties and Seventies, New York: C P Dutton, 1979.
Anon. ‘La Face Obscure d’un Champion: Rafael Nadal, l’Ere du Soupçon’, L’illustré, 2009, pp. 32–35.
Lynn Barber, ‘Anyone for Tension?’, Sunday Times, Magazine, 5 June, 2011.
Pat Cash, ‘Pat Cash in Melbourne’, Sunday Times, 12 January 2014, sports section p. 13.
Larry Elliot, ‘What if this time, the party really is over?’, Guardian, 6 May, 2013, p. 21.
Owen Gibson, ‘Doping: now it’s worse than it’s ever been’, Guardian sports section, 16 February, 2013.
Giles Hattersley, ‘New Balls Please’, Sunday Times, Style, 16 December, 2012, pp. 26–28.
Paul Hayward, ‘Forget purity, sport has never been innocent’, Observer sports section, 20 October, 2009.
Jon Henderson, ‘Grisly, ghastly and gripping is just how Andy likes it’, Evening Standard, 28 January, 2013, p. 59.
Stuart Jeffries, ‘Is Germany too Powerful for Europe?’, Guardian, G2, 1 April, 2013, p. 11.
Chris Jones, ‘Nadal’s London Calling’, Evening Standard, 24 October 2013, World Tour finals supplement.
Elizabeth Kaye, ‘The Power and the Glory’, Observer, Magazine, 14 June, 2009.
Kevin Mitchell, ‘You’re going through so much pain, but you still enjoy it’, Guardian Sport, 30 January, 2012, p. 3.
Kevin Mitchell, ‘Extra Time for the Worshippers at the Church of Federer’, Guardian, Sports Section, 12 January, 2013.
Kevin Mitchell, ‘Wimbledon raises prize money to record levels for winners and losers’, Guardian, 24 April, 2013, p. 43.
Kevin Mitchell, ‘Djokovic hopes Becker’s change of mindset can bring net gains’, Guardian, 13 January, 2014, sports section, p. 8.
Peter Walker, ‘Wimbledon Women’s Quarter Final is Suddenly not the name of the Game’, Guardian, 3 July, 2013.
David Walsh, ‘Sponsorship? I get free contact lenses from my optician in Sheffield’, The Sunday Times, 15 July, 2012.
Internet sites
Tim Adams, http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jul05/monica-seles-interview accessed 12 March, 2013.
Peter Bodo, ‘Sprezzatura’, http://tennis.com/tennisworld/2009/06sprezzatura.html accessed 9 September, 2009.
S L Price, ‘Boris Becker: Broken Promise’, Time, http://www.time.com accessed 3 June, 2013.
Steve Tignor, ‘The Rally: The Life and Legacy of Brad Drewett’, http://www.tennis.com/pro-game/2013/05/rally-life-and-legacy-brad/drewett/47346 accessed 5 June 2013.