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Davis
Cup 2008: The Year in Tennis (Davis Cup: The Year in Tennis)
by Mark Hodgkinson
Hardcover from Universe
Media Published: 2009-
ISBN: 0789318512
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 days
With candid text and never-before-published photos taken by the sport's
top photographers, this dynamic yearbook captures the dramatic storylines,
high quality of play, and enthusiasm of the crowd that characterize Davis
Cup. Launched in 1900 as a match between the United States and Great Britain,
Davis Cup has grown into the largest annual team competition in sports.
With Andy Roddick and James Blake returning to fight for the U.S., the
competition continues to generate heat and excitement in America and abroad. |
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The
Davis Cup
by Edward Clarkson Potter
Hardcover from A. S. Barnes
ISBN: 0498066657
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Davis
Cup 2005: The Year in Tennis (Year in Tennis/Davis Cup)
by Chris Bowers
Hardcover from Universe
Media Published: 2006-
ISBN: 0789313766
With candid text and never-before-published photos taken by the sports
top photographers, this dynamic yearbook captures the dramatic storylines,
high quality of play, and enthusiasm of the crowd that characterize Davis
Cup. Launched in 1900 as a match between the United States and Great Britain,
the Davis Cup has grown into the largest annual team competition in sports
with more than 130 nations entered in the year 2005. With Andre Agassi
back on the Cup court for the first time since 2000 and Andy Roddick returning
to fight for the US, the competition continues to generate heat and excitement
in America and abroad. |
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Davis
Cup 2006: The Year in Tennis (Year in Tennis/Davis Cup)
by Chris Bowers
Hardcover from Universe
Media Published: 2007-
ISBN: 0789315475
With candid text and never-before-published photos taken by the sports
top photographers, this dynamic yearbook captures the dramatic storylines,
high quality of play, and enthusiasm of the crowd that characterize Davis
Cup. Launched in 1900 as a match between the United States and Great Britain,
the Davis Cup has grown into the largest annual team competition in sports
with more than 130 nations entered in the year 2006. |
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Davis
Cup 2007: The Year in Tennis (Davis Cup: The Year in Tennis)
by Chris Bowers
Hardcover from Universe
Media Published: 2008-
ISBN: 0789316897
In conjunction with the International Tennis Federation, The Davis
Cup 2007 will take you through all the dramatic storylines and high quality
of play that are characteristic of the largest annual team competition
in sports. |
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The
Davis Cup: Celebrating 100 Years of International Tennis
by Richard J. Evans
Hardcover from Universe Publishing
Media Published: 1999-
ISBN: 0789302578
"The Davis Cup offered me more immediate pleasure than almost anything
else I accomplished in my career....I hope you enjoy this detailed history
of a unique competition. Whether it is played at Kooyong or Casablanca,
a World Group Final or a first round in the African Zone, Davis Cup offers
tennis players the rare chance of experiencing the thrill of playing for
your teammates and your country."--John McEnroe, from the Foreword
Back in Boston in 1900, they called it "Dwight's little pot," but very
soon it turned out to be much more than that. Dwight Davis's idea of offering
a silver bowl as a prize to be fought for each year between tennis-playing
nations grew into one of the most recognized and keenly contested annual
sporting competitions in the world. Beginning as a match between the United
States and the British Isles at the Longwood Cricket Club, the Davis Cup
has endured for one hundred years, modifying itself now and again, but
essentially remaining what Dwight Davis always intended it to be: a means
of nurturing healthy sporting relations between countries all over the
globe.
In this lavishly illustrated history, Richard Evans, one of the world's
leading tennis writers, chronicles not merely the matches that caught the
imagination of millions but the extraordinary array of personalities who
gave the Cup its luster and whose names are now engraved on its silver
panels-- Anthony Wilding, the dashing New Zealander who rode from tournament
to tournament on one of the first motorbikes, leaving a trail of broken
hearts in his wake; Wilding's Australian colleague Norman Brookes, a taciturn
man known as "the Wizard"; or Maurice McLoughlin, dubbed "the Californian
Comet." There was Bill Tilden, arrogant, effete, and outrageous, who insisted
on playing his own "sweet game" on and off the court and became a world
superstar doing it. Or the Four Musketeers who held the Cup for France
for six years before a handsome Englishman with the wrong accent-- at least
for the snob-ridden 1930s-- came along to snatch it away. Fred Perry won
the Cup for Britain three times, and now it has fallen to Greg Rusedski
and Tim Henman to try to get it back.
The Harry Hopman dynasty, in which the legendary Australian coach produced
a conveyer belt of champions-- from Frank Sedgman, Lew Hoad, and Ken Rosewall
to Rod Laver, Roy Emerson, and John Newcombe-- was centered around Davis
Cup triumph; and the story continues, through the turbulent years of Ilie
Nastase and John McEnroe to Yannick Noah's successes for France in the
1990s.
The Davis Cup has quite a story to tell. And this book tells that story:
an unforgettable sporting and social odyssey covering one hundred years. |
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Dwight Davis : The Man and the Cup
by Nancy Kriplen, Nancy Kriplen
Hardcover from Ebury House
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World of Tennis: Celebrating the 100th Year
of Davis Cup: 1999
by John Barrett
Paperback from HarperCollins Publishers
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