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Author Harris, Cecil, 1960-

Title 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.

Publication Info. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  GV992 .H37 2007    Available  ---
Description viii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-255) and index.
Contents Foreword / 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.
Subject Tennis -- History.
Tennis.
History.
Tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
Tennis players.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African American tennis players -- History.
African American tennis players.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Kyle-DeBose, Larryette, 1945-
ISBN 9781566637145 cloth alkaline paper
1566637147 cloth alkaline paper