Charging the net : a history of Blacks in tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams sisters / Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose ; with a foreword by James Blake and an afterword by Robert Ryland.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Cecil, 1960-
Other Authors: Kyle-DeBose, Larryette, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Tennis > History.
Tennis players > United States > Biography.
African American tennis players > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword by James Blake
  • Introduction
  • "There is no African-American culture in tennis"
  • "I'm not going to be who you want me to be"
  • "I'm not giving anything else away"
  • "He was exactly who we needed at the time"
  • "We were the only show in town"
  • "You tell me what the similarity is"
  • "It was as if God handed these two young girls to me"
  • "Tennis is a family sport"
  • "You niggers gotta get off the court"
  • "Nobody called me names on the court, but nobody rooted for me either"
  • "You could play the French Open and never really see Paris"
  • "It's nice not to have to be a fly in milk"
  • "We need you out here"
  • Afterword
  • Appendix A : ATA singles champions
  • Appendix B : world-ranked black tennis players.