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THE TENNIS COURT
A fresh approach to a beloved sport, The Tennis Court takes you on a journey to the most breathtaking tennis courts around the world.
There are tennis courts everywhere in the world, and Nick Pachelli has curated the most beautiful and significant ones out there—from Arthur Ashe and Wimbledon to the stunning dusty red clay courts of the Tennis Club Argentino in Buenos Aires to the Il San Pietro, tucked into the magical cliffs of Positano, Italy. The Tennis Court is a stunning visual salute to the tennis court as not only a sporting destination, but a cultural gathering ground shared around the world.
Praise for THE TENNIS COURT
“A labor of love that is a pure pleasure to read and peruse.”
—Christopher Clarey, New York Times bestselling author of The Master
“How had I been so blind? I’d seen a tennis court as an arrangement of lines, neat boxes, a net. This book reveals so much more: spaces within spaces, quirks and surfaces, shadows and light, communities—the communities most of all. What a gift. I won't look at the game the same way again.”
—Louisa Thomas, staff writer, The New Yorker
“From Kent to Kenya, Marrakech to Melbourne. Surfaced differently. Indoors, outdoors. Seaside and underground. Pachelli captures the magic in this masterful book, which celebrates not just tennis, and not just its variegated venues . . . but this topspinning orb we call planet Earth.”
—Jon Wertheim, New York Times bestselling author and correspondent for 60 Minutes
“This book contains hundreds of beautifully photographed tennis courts. The real joy, though, is found in the stories that unfold about each one.”
—Katrina M. Adams, author and former president and CEO of the United States Tennis Association
“The Tennis Court gives fans new and old a way into (and onto) some of the most exceptional arenas of play around the globe. Detailing the remote and far removed to legendary courts that have hosted the most storied events in tennis history, Nick Pachelli’s gorgeous book lends us a lens to encounter the world.”
—Caitlin Thompson, founder of Racquet magazine
“A stunning celebration of tennis. A tennis court book about much more than tennis courts, this story speaks to the heart of anyone with a passion for a pastime.”
—Tom Coyne, New York Times bestselling author
“I leafed through this lovely volume with one hand clenched in a forehand grip on a phantom racquet. I was imagining what it would be like to play on the scores of courts around the world that Pachelli tracked down: the one surfaced with sea-drenched sand on Spain’s Asturian coast; that wisteria-walled one in Tasmania….If tennis is your passion, you too will be transported.”
—Gerald Marzorati, author and writer at The New Yorker and Racquet magazine
“Gorgeous portraiture, fascinating breadth, emotional in all the specificity. The Tennis Court is a luscious Lonely Planet for tennis addicts.”
—Rosecrans Baldwin, author of Everything Now
“The Tennis Court is a richly researched and evocatively photographed book. I’ll be returning to these pages anytime I need to lose myself amid the soaring roar of a grand slam final, or find solace in the soothing hush of a faraway court.”
—Will Taylor, author and host