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The classic biography of Americaâs first tennis star. When he stepped onto the Wimbledon grass in 1920, Bill Tilden was poised to become the worldâs greatest tennis star. Throughout the 1920's he dominated the sport, winning championship after championship with his trademark grace, power, and intelligence. He owned the game more completely than Babe Ruth ruled baseball, making his name, for more than a decade, synonymous with tennis. Phenomenally intelligentâhe completed his first book on tennis in the three weeks before his first Wimbledon triumphâTildenâs success came with a dark side. This classic biography, by legendary sports writer Frank Deford, tells of Tildenâs dominance, which was unlike anything the sport had ever seenâand the big manâs tragic fall.
About: The American tragedy of Big Bill Tilden is illuminated in a fresh portrait of the tennis star who dominated the sport from the 1920s through the 1950s but died alone in abject poverty, a long-time social outcast who preferred the company of boys.
About: The classic biography of Americaâs first tennis star.
About: The classic biography of Americaâs first tennis star.
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