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Boris Becker, Germany

Click here for book description or to purchase Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. A thought experiment: let’s push nationalism too far. The television stations in Germany would shift other sporting events to different times so the entire nation could watch Becker’s matches.   A Becker match meant drama: Sturm und […]

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Novak Djokovic

Click here for book description or to purchase Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen.  Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen. Early in his career, the most irritating ball bounce in the history of tennis. Changed that. Early in his […]

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Maria Sharapova

Click here for book description or to purchase Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Sharapova painted as a relentless puppet machine in a femme fatale nightmare. “Surreal but Real” is how Tom Lohner describes his art. Sharapova painted the moment before she cracks a serve, the background paint dripping upward […]

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Guga’s Hair, 1997

Click here for book description or to purchase Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Novak Djokovic’s unruly wig bouncing Djoker caricaturing Gustavo Kuerten so that he looks like a bobblehead sports doll, Guga’s hair in reality so loose and free his body so loose-limbed and free dancing and bobbing to […]

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Monica Seles

Click here for book description or to purchase Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Randomly choose a number from 1-4. I  Better if the violence happens offstage as in Greek drama. Just give me the plot, the facts. The nine-inch boning knife, the deranged fan of Steffi Graf coming out […]

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Rafael Nadal and the Lascaux Cave Paintings

Click here to purchase new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. 4,500 rpm on the forehand.  Borg’s topspin revolution doubled, squared.  All that topspin means net clearance, safety, angles.  The perfect weapon for clay, its wars of attrition.  Not far from the arena of Roland Garros lay the caves […]

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Jana Novotna and Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”

Click here to purchase new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Leading 4-1, 40-30 in the final set for the Wimbledon title, Novotna’s second serve sails halfway to the baseline. Double fault. Deuce. Tension. Novotna pokes a sitter forehand volley way over the baseline. Ad-out. Jana’s legs imperceptibly heavier […]