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.
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Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Ivan R. Dee,
[2007], ©2007.
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Physical Description: | viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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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.