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The Tennis Memoirs That Go Beyond the Game https://www.rawchili.com/5040758/ #AllFeatures #AltheaGibson #AndreAgassi #ArthurAshe #Arts #BillieJeanKing #biographies #books #ConorNiland #culture #GordonForbes #JamesBlake #JelenaDokic #JohnCarlin #JohnMcEnroe #MariaSharapova #Memoirs #NonFiction #RafaelNadal #SerenaWilliams #tennis #TheEstablishmentWeeklyFeatures #WeeklyFeatures
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The Tennis Memoirs That Go Beyond the Game https://www.rawchili.com/5040758/ #AllFeatures #AltheaGibson #AndreAgassi #ArthurAshe #Arts #BillieJeanKing #biographies #books #ConorNiland #culture #GordonForbes #JamesBlake #JelenaDokic #JohnCarlin #JohnMcEnroe #MariaSharapova #Memoirs #NonFiction #RafaelNadal #SerenaWilliams #tennis #TheEstablishmentWeeklyFeatures #WeeklyFeatures
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The Tennis Memoirs That Go Beyond the Game
Behind the Wimbledon whites, pristine courts and gleaming trophies lies a world far more brutal than the public…
#Tennis #News #AllFeatures #AltheaGibson #AndreAgassi #ArthurAshe #Arts #BillieJeanKing #biographies #Books #ConorNiland #Culture #GordonForbes #JamesBlake #JelenaDokic #JohnCarlin #JohnMcEnroe #MariaSharapova #Memoirs #Non-fiction #RafaelNadal #SerenaWilliams #TheEstablishmentWeeklyFeatures #WeeklyFeatures
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>>Locker rooms on the lesser tours are full of strangers with bad tattoos. Everyone is just polite enough not to call one another out for being an asshole, but selfishness is rewarded. Everyone is in competition with one another and on the lookout for a weakness in everybody else, and players never go out of their way to make the life of a lone traveller any easier.<<
I would imagine that similarly grim but fascinating pieces could be written about life in the lower reaches of other "glamour occupations".
‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player | Tennis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun
/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player -
>>Locker rooms on the lesser tours are full of strangers with bad tattoos. Everyone is just polite enough not to call one another out for being an asshole, but selfishness is rewarded. Everyone is in competition with one another and on the lookout for a weakness in everybody else, and players never go out of their way to make the life of a lone traveller any easier.<<
I would imagine that similarly grim but fascinating pieces could be written about life in the lower reaches of other "glamour occupations".
‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player | Tennis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun
/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player -
>>Locker rooms on the lesser tours are full of strangers with bad tattoos. Everyone is just polite enough not to call one another out for being an asshole, but selfishness is rewarded. Everyone is in competition with one another and on the lookout for a weakness in everybody else, and players never go out of their way to make the life of a lone traveller any easier.<<
I would imagine that similarly grim but fascinating pieces could be written about life in the lower reaches of other "glamour occupations".
‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player | Tennis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun
/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player -
>>Locker rooms on the lesser tours are full of strangers with bad tattoos. Everyone is just polite enough not to call one another out for being an asshole, but selfishness is rewarded. Everyone is in competition with one another and on the lookout for a weakness in everybody else, and players never go out of their way to make the life of a lone traveller any easier.<<
I would imagine that similarly grim but fascinating pieces could be written about life in the lower reaches of other "glamour occupations".
‘I’m good, I promise’: the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player | Tennis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun
/27/the-loneliness-of-the-low-ranking-tennis-player