The game of love -- Pt. One: A leisured class. Healthy excitement and scientific play -- Real tennis and the scoring system -- The growth of a sporting culture -- On the Riviera -- What's wrong with women? -- A match out of Henry James -- The lonely American -- The four musketeers -- Working-class heroes -- Tennis in Weimar and after -- As a man grows lder -- Three women -- Pt. Two: This sporting life. Home from the war -- Gorgeous girls -- Opening play -- Those also excluded -- Tennis meets feminism -- Pt. Three: That's entertainment. Bad behaviour -- Corporate tennis -- Women's power -- Vorsprung durch Technik -- Celebrity stars -- Millennium tennis -- The rhetoric of sport -- Back to the future.
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