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Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in The Harsh New World of Professional Tennis PDF

486 Pages·1995·20.68 MB·English
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theCOURTS New Tales of Greed and Glory in the Harsh World of Professional Tennis jwjir^v * I ill . W$l in* ScootSSSuaV '*18111 Effilf r * its Kwiimiif t 1® r %i In i1kLy 1 ; ,Hr? *5;- \.-* V > f v".-. ->ri w jV: » * t* THE Courts OF Babylon Tales of Greed and Glory a Harsh New World in of Professional Tennis bodo peter SCRIBNER NEWYORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY TOKYO SINGAPORE SCRIBNER 1230Avenue ofthe Americas NewYork,NY 10020 Copyright © 1995 byPeterBodo All rights reserved, includingthe rightofreproduction inwhole orinpart inanyform. SCRIBNERand design are trademarks ofSimon & SchusterInc. DESIGNEDBYERICH HOBBING Manufacturedin the UnitedStates ofAmerica 13579 8642 10 LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bodo, Peter. Thecourts ofBabylon : tales ofgreedand gloryin a harshnew world ofprofessional tennis/ PeterBodo. p. cm. Includes index. 1.Tennis. 2.Tennis players. I.Title. GV995.B6832 1995 — 796.342'64 dc20 95-14760 CIP ISBN 0-684-81296-7 ; This book isforMarion Gengler . whose copious knowledge oftennis was the least ofit. Digitized by the Internet Archive 2015 in https://archive.org/details/courtsofbabylontOObodo Contents Acknowledgments 9 Author’s Note 11 Introduction 15 PARTI 1. Australia: So Golden It’s Almost Freakish 29 A 2. Ivan Lendl: Spartan in Babylon 46 3. Privileges and Perks in the Global Tennis Community 65 4. The Gals of Babylon, Part One 81 5. Evonne Goolagong: The Nose of the Kangaroo 104 PART 11 6. France: OfJerry Lewis, Philippe Chartrier, and the Alphabet Wars of the Open Era 121 7. Bjorn Borg: Hey-doo, and Little Else 150 8. Style: Pajama Tops, Pukka Shells, and Bad Hair Days in Babylon 175 9. Chris Evert: The Cold and Absolute Fire 198 PART 111 10. Wimbledon: Bath Buns, Bad Bounces, and Why Nigel Can’t Play 225 11. Race: The Hard Road to Tennis Glory 247 12. The Gals of Babylon, Part Two 272 13. Martina of Starwood 295

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