Meet Morgan Riddle: how this Bright Young Thing became ‘The Most Famous Woman in Men’s Tennis’
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Meet Morgan Riddle: how this Bright Young Thing became ‘The Most Famous Woman in Men’s Tennis’
They’re on the Varsity Influencer Team
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After winning Wimbledon in 1920 at the late age of twenty-seven, Tilden did not lose a match in the next six years—a feat of domination that is inconceivable in modern tennis. Like a slugger batting a thousand for six seasons.
Abraham Verghese • The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
After Ivanisevic revealed that part of his ‘lucky’ routine was to watch the same children’s programme, the Teletubbies, every morning, a cohort of supporters appeared at the All England Club dressed as the on-screen puppets.
Elizabeth Wilson • Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon
WITH FOUR HELICOPTERS full of paparazzi circling overhead, on April 19, 1997, Brooke and I get married.
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It’s hard to see history when you’re in the middle of it, harder still to distinguish Swift’s impact on the culture from her celebrity, which emits so much light it can be blinding. But something unusual is happening with Swift, without a contemporary precedent. She deploys the most efficient medium of the day—the pop song—to tell her story. Yet ov... See more