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81) I spy: Season 1
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
International espionage agents Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott go on highly dangerous missions posing as a world-class playboy/tennis player and his trainer. Together they travel the world, trading quips and fighting high-level crime with cool bravado and extraordinary savoir-faire.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
One of professional tennis's Grand Slam Tournaments, the U.S. Open has been described as a fourteen-day Superbowl. This single tennis championship, held annually in New York City, attracts top professionals from around the globe, generates more money than any other sporting event--or any other sport over an entire season--and attracts more than 700,000 attendees and millions of television viewers. In Own the Arena, Katrina Adams offers a privileged,...
84) Rafael Nadal
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my personal shero, who overcame daunting odds - on the tennis court and off - to stand at the world pinnacle of her sport and became an inspiration to many." - Billie Jean King In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis...
89) Billie Jean King
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the tennis champion who has been a leader in making an equal place for women in athletics.
90) Match point
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly cozy lifestyle, Chris begins to consider a drastic solution....
91) Unmatched
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 21
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
No individual sports rivalry can boast the intensity and impact of the one between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. Fierce competitors, the two lifted each other to heights that each couldn't have reached without the other. On the court, their battles were fought hard. But even more remarkable is what happened off the court, as they formed a strong and lasting friendship, bonding them to this day. Pull up a chair and join an intimate one-on-one...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Using as its primary lens the fabled 1981 U.S. Open match between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, as well as the watershed tournament at large, High Strung orbits around the four greatest, enigmatic talents of that age and argues that with their collective, athletic dňouements came the end of the golden era of tennis"--
94) Althea
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Althea Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper's daughter, her family's migration to Harlem, her mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, her fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring the story into a much broader realm of African American history, transcending sports.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs provide insight into the relationship of tennis great Arthur Ashe and his six-year-old daughter Camera, showing how young children and their families deal with AIDS.
96) Ping pong
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about eight competitors in the World Over-80 Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. They are all in their 80s and 90s; one Australian woman is a centurion. Most of the players have been athletes all their lives, but one woman took the sport up as an octogenarian after suffering a stroke. The advanced masters scene is like those in other sports, with rivalries, egomania and even dirty tricks. Losing doesn't get any less painful...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles.
98) Borg vs. McEnroe
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the 1980s sports rivalry between tennis players Björn Borg and John McEnroe.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author shares the inspiring and entertaining account of his pursuit to become a nationally competitive tennis player--at the age of sixty. Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old
Author
Publisher
Harperteen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Maguire is bad luck. No matter how many charms she buys or good luck rituals she performs, horrible things happen. She spends a lot of time in her room to avoid causing damage. But then she meets Jordy, a talented, lucky, aspiring tennis star. He's convinced he can help Maguire break her unlucky streak; she is convinced the best thing she can do for Jordy is stay away. But it turns out that staying away is harder than she thought. --