| Rod Laver is, quite sim.ply, the world s best tennis player.And here, written with Bud Collins,one of America s top tennis writers,is the wonderfully readable accountof how he got that way. Beginning at the age of 13 whenhe embarked on his tennis career, theLaver story takes you through the1969 season, when he won all fourmajor tennis titles in his secondGrand Slam--sweeping again theWimbledon, Australian, French andUnited States crowns--right down tothe present, or as close to it as thelogistics of publishing allow. The Education of a Tennis Player isfilled with suspenseful matches andmemorable portraits of the tennisgiants Laver has met and playedagainst: Hoad, Rosewall, Roche, and |
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