Latest Posts

Tennis Beyond the Headlines: June 13, 2026 Sleep Is a Tennis Training Session The Match Begins Before the Warm-Up What Swearing Can Teach Us About Better Tennis ACES: The ATP No. 1 Club Arrived at the Worst Possible Time Principle 12: The Courage to Reverse a Call Iga Świątek’s Mini Resistance Loop Warm-Up for Tennis

Levels of the Game

I finally completed my reading of Levels of the Game by John McPhee. The book is a detailed account of the 1968 semi-final match between by Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner play at Forest Hills and is widely regarded as a literary masterpiece. The match is the foreground of for a much deeper cultural and societal examination. The backgrounds and attitudes which shaped each player are interwoven with the match play.