Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History.

From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake explains how the game s historical roots have shaped its contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us much about the...