About this title: In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played an epic match. Wertheim deconstructs this defining moment in sport, which he calls a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennis.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2009-06-04
ISBN-13:9780547232805ISBN:0547232802
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Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780547232805ISBN:0547232802
Description: Very Good- in Good + jacket. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight but pulling away from the boards. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has folding on the back flap and a tear at the top. read more
Description: New. In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played an epic match. Wertheim deconstructs this defining moment in sport, which he calls a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennis. read more
"An interesting contrast in styles, but it pales in comparison to Wallace's "Federer as Religious Experience" in the Times. And really, you can learn everything you need to know about Federer and Nadal by watching them play."
"While moving I was cut off from my Tennis Channel. It was just as satisfying to read this account of the 2008 Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, with all the background Wertheim provides. It wasn't just the supremacy over men's tennis that was at stake. Federer was battling his own vulnerabilities in his chase after a record number of Major titles, and Nadal's years of developing his explosive skills were about to bring him equal to Bjorn Borg's feat of winning the clay and grass surface finals one after the other. It was an extraordinary, stunning match to watch and rewarding to relive with Wertheim's insights. My complaint about the book is that it didn't last long enough."
"Gossip Sells. Like Venus envy, this effort provides a modest amount of gossip about both Federer and Nadal. It also, bizarrely focus on some personal idiosyncracies that are not only obvious but, really don't need to be memorialized in print.
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