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A good piece of tennis trivia is like a perfectly timed backhand: impossible to get to, but appreciated by anyone who is lucky enough to experience it. This book contains thousands of such pieces of trivia. It starts as a way for you to discover the greatest players over the past 150 years of history that this game as, and moves on to help you learn more about their key achievements and the countries for which they played. This book is meant for all those who were fans of tennis before it was cool - those who knew and loved the sport before the Big Three catapulted it into massive worldwide popularity, before huge prize purses turned the top ATP tour players in the world into plutocrats. True tennis fans are pundits. The level of knowledge that even a casual tennis fan has is usually quite deep. After all, even someone who has watched only a single Grand Slam comes away with a working knowledge of dozens of players. At the other end of the spectrum, we have people whose deep expertise and bottomless knowledge put most casual fans to shame. This sport is packed with thrills for the casual viewer, deep analysis for the engaged pundit, and entertainment for anyone who watches a point, a game, a set, a match, or an entire Grand Slam. Any fan of tennis is proud of his or her knowledge of the sport, and this book gives you an opportunity to test just how big a fan you are! Fans of tennis - millions and millions of them - are usually educated about the sport they love. They will debate the comparative historical merits of Borg vs. Agassi, and Court vs. Williams, all while waiting for the break between sets in a Nadal vs. Djokovic or Federer vs. Nadal five setter. With the recent explosion in popularity of tennis over the past decade, the future looks very bright for this sport. This book is a celebration of the men and women who have taken tennis to the pinnacle of sporting fandom that it occupies today. Through the pages of this book, you will battle through hundreds of trivia challenges designed to test your knowledge of tennis legends, ATP tour fixtures, and Grand Slam Champions like no other quiz book can: the tennis player icons featured in this book range from people who built up the sport before the First World War, when it was nothing like the global juggernaut it is today, to people like Naomi Osaka, one of the brightest young stars in all of world sport in the year 2021. If you can score consistently above 80% in the trivia challenge sets in this book, I salute your superior knowledge. Regardless of how you perform, this book will give you many hours and weeks of pure clean fun: it will take you back to games, sets, and matches that had you biting your nails at the edge of your seat, as you willed your favorite player to take that one elusive point and win the tie break that would add one more Grand Slam to their kitty. Tennis is awesome, and this book will remind you of the achievements of the tennis players who kept the sport awesome all these years. Let us play!

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