Gillmeister, Heiner

Contents: The origins of tennis: the monks' racket -- The tennis games of the Middle Ages -- The language of tennis -- Tennis in Renaissance literature -- Tennis in the German Ballhouse -- Lawn tennis: the sturdy bastard -- Lawn tennis in America -- Continental colonies: lawn tennis in France -- Lawn tennis under the Kaiser.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 1998

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