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A handful of summers by gordon forbes paperback harpercollins. Together, they were considered one of the best doubles teams in the world. You dont have to be a player to enjoy this book, but it helps. A handful of summers centres on forbess life on the tennis tour from 1952 until 1968. Forbes starts with his childhood on a farm in south africa, where he learned the game with his brother and sister on a gravel court. Its a delightfully uninhibited insiders account of tennis on the international circuit both on and off the court in the fifties and sixties, the glory days of fred perry, roy emerson, and virginia wade.

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