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A career biography beginning with Tracy Austin's childhood and including family background, training, and tournament statistics.
A biography of the tennis player who won the 98th annual U.S. Open Tennis Championship in 1979.
A biography of the youngest player to ever compete in the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills. Includes profiles of several other young amateur tennis players.
A career biography of the youngest person ever to win the U.S. Open Women's Singles Championship.
Sports fandom--often more than religious, political, or regional affiliation--determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative entertainments rather than merely competitive displays. While it may seem that sports narratives are "written" by athletes and journalists, Cohan demonstrates that fans are not passive consumers but rather function as readers and writers who appropriate those narratives and generate their own stories in building their sense of identity. Critically reading stories of sports fans' self-definition across gen...
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A biography of tennis star Tracy Austin, who began winning tournaments at the age of fourteen.
A biography of the winner of 11 United States Tennis Association titles whose debut at Wimbledon made her the youngest player ever to compete in that tournament.
Four young people graduate from one of America’s finest universities NYU. They have been more than friends during their freshman years but for the class 2008 graduation brings the shock of reality as they face the real world. The NYU graduates decide to go their different ways unaware of the tragedies that will befall them in their pursuit of wealth and fame in the real world of materialism and man’s inhumanity to man. Their families are from different walks of life, from excessive wealth to working class. We live in an insanely competitive and individualistic world . . . one that worships, money, possessions, perfection and celebrity that never let us take a step off the treadmill. This is a drama of insurmountable proportions where, tragedy, murder, betrayal, fraud and industrial espionage are all part of their tremulous journey in the real world and the reality that with every decision we make there is always a price!
This book contains every result at the Wimbledon Gentlemen's and Ladies Singles Championships since the open era began in 1968. For the 2014 edition, there are full details of all 256 players taking part in the main draws, their rankings before and after the tournament and their 5-year performance at Wimbledon. Results from the Roehampton qualifying competition are also included. The statistics section contains a point-by-point record of the finals as well as statistics for the matches and set by set. This 323-page book is a complete record of the 2014 tournament, and a fully detailed reference of the open era at Wimbledon.