tennis players

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tennis players

Arthur Ashe

1998
Traces the tennis career of Arthur Ashe and describes the discrimination he faced as he worked to master "the white man's game.".

Billie Jean King

tennis trailblazer
1999
A biography of one of the first women to play tennis professionally.

Andre Agassi

star tennis player
1997
Profiles the personal life and tennis career of the showy winner of the 1992 Wimbledon championship.

Venus Williams

2000
A biography of the teenage tennis player who was ranked among the top ten women players in the world in 1998.

Wimbledon

1989
Explores the Wimbledon tennis competition from its beginnings to the present, discussing changes in rules and playing style and great players from Spencer Gore to Boris Becker.

Serena and Venus Williams

2002
Traces the lives and tennis careers of sisters Serena and Venus Williams.

Young Arthur Ashe

brave champion
1996
A brief biography of the African American tennis champion who died of AIDS in 1993.

Arthur Ashe

of tennis & the human spirit
1999
Discusses the personal life and sports career of the African-American tennis champion, Arthur Ashe, as well as his struggles with racism and AIDS.

Martina

1985
The private and public life of the top tennis player in the world, who used to dream of living in America and of being Centre Court at Wimbledon when she was a young child in Czechoslovakia.

Chrissie, my own story

1982
A self-portrait of the champion tennis player discussing events in her life and career.

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