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a biography
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Edmondson, Jacqueline
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 WIL 2005
- Thesaurus
- sportberoepen, topsport, tennis, zwarte vrouwen, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- Life stories of Venus (1980) and Serena (1981) Williams, who charged onto center court in professional tennis at the end of the 20th century.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Howard, Johnette
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 2005
- Thesaurus
- tennis, topsport, biografie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- For 16 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova faced each other on the tennis court: they met 80 times—and 60 times in finals. Howard tells the story of how these two women came together from disparate worlds and founded a complicated though lasting friendship. Evert, the charming, pony tailed daughter of a middle-class, all-American family. Navratilova exuded seriousness: her determined look and sturdy frame matched her history, a dramatic, heart-wrenching one that involved leaving her family behind in communist Czechoslovakia and her being a lesbian. Howard shows how Evert and Navratilova's paths slowly merged, until they finally faced each other for the first time in 1973. From then until 1988, they traded leads, with Evert winning most of the early matches and Navratilova dominating in later years (overall, Navratilova held a 43–37 advantage).
Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the tennis match that leveled the game
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Roberts, Selena
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2005 - B
- Thesaurus
- tennis, feminisme, etniciteit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- On September 20, 1973, Billie Jean King, the premier female tennis player of her era, defeated aging male former Wimbledon champion and self-promoting hustler Bobby Riggs in a nationally televised match ballyhooed as the 'Battle of the Sexes.' There were many issues at stake, some understood only by King and a handful of supporters. Roberts explores the events leading up to the match as well as the consequences. Riggs had created a context for the match by proclaiming women players so inferior to men that the best woman couldn't beat an over-the-hill hustler. Roberts explores the match in terms of its cultural significance, its impact on Title IX legislation, and the rise of feminism in the last quarter of the twentieth century. She also profiles the personalities involved, particularly the principals, King, Riggs, and Court.
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