Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-par

Tennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world�

Tennis is much more than Wimbledon! This story reveals the hidden history of the sport.

This is a comprehensive history of tennis and arguably, the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. The author amasses a range of linguistic and

In this volume, which was originally published in 1989, nine distinguished historians look at the origins, growth and organisation of the major mass-participati