Tennis: Play It, Read It, Work In It

by bam

A complete, cited tennis course for high school students: how to actually play (grips, strokes, footwork), how to think tactically (serve+1, court positioning, patterns, singles vs. doubles), the rules and who writes them (the ITF publishes them; the tours and the four Slams layer their own conditions on top), the sport's remarkable social history (the American Tennis Association, Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King and the Original 9, the Open era, and the 34-year climb to equal prize money), how the leagues actually fit together, and the honest economics, what tennis really pays, and the many ways to build a life or a business in it without ever turning pro.