| Tough Draw: The Path to Tennis Glory |  | Author: Eliot Berry
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2041120
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0805023143
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.342
EAN: 9780805023145
ASIN: 0805023143
Publication Date: September 1992
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Product Description
A former tennis pro offers an insightful analysis of the sport as it is played today, focusing on the 1990 and 1991 tennis seasons to show what motivates the game's greatest players. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.
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 Pretty bad - check out Feinstein instead September 24, 2008
I love tennis and 1990 was a terrific year in that it threw up eight different Grand Slam champions in the 4 slams. It saw the breakthrough of Sampras, vulnerability in Graf, history for Martina, Sabatini's lone moment of Grand Slam glory, the arrival of Capriati and cementing of Seles, a feel-good shock victory for Gomez and the third consecutive Wimbledon final between Becker and Edberg. But this book doesnt capture it. The interviews are uneven but the reporting even more so. The author has travelled to Leimen and Vastervik, but not to much avail. Read John Feinstein's Hard Courts instead - amazingly covering the same year, but showing us all how its done. Disappointing.
 Sloppy and pretentious November 26, 1997
Berry reaches for the literary high ground, but he stumbles on endlessly repeated imagery and numerous stunning errors of fact. He's obviously interested in his topic, and perhaps a less confident writer would have paid closer attention and gotten the details right.
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