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    Tennis's Strangest Matches: Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of tennis

    By Peter Seddon

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    In this hugely entertaining collection of 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 a convicted murderer, and the ‘Match of the Century’ between the ‘Women’s Libber’ and the ‘Male Chauvinist Pig’. There are matches played on board ship and on the wings of an airborne plane, a game played in full regimental dress, and meet the player who rated himself so highly he played an entire match while carrying someone ‘piggy-back’. The stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true.

    Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of tennis fanatics, this book is a unique look at the curiosities of an endlessly popular sport, revealing the ‘strawberries and cream’ game as you’ve never seen it before.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortico
    Release dateMay 30, 2016
    ISBN9781911042563
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    • 4/5
      An interesting and quite amusing collection of strange and quirky tennis matches, including a few from the late Medieval/early modern era of Real Tennis. Perfect light reading for a summer in the garden.