Há pouco dei com um livro chamado: A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, a World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played.
Eis um excerto de uma recensão: At 22, Budge was No. 1 in the world, on his way to becoming a superstar. The 28-year-old von Cramm, No. 2, feared he was on his way to a Nazi prison — or worse. Von Cramm’s coach, the “fading American hero” Bill Tilden, was unsure where he was going.
Fisher depicts the intersection of their careers amid the simmering world conflict, juxtaposing history and sport in an absorbing but uneven narrative that does not always live up to the match’s billing.
Eis um excerto de uma recensão: At 22, Budge was No. 1 in the world, on his way to becoming a superstar. The 28-year-old von Cramm, No. 2, feared he was on his way to a Nazi prison — or worse. Von Cramm’s coach, the “fading American hero” Bill Tilden, was unsure where he was going.
Fisher depicts the intersection of their careers amid the simmering world conflict, juxtaposing history and sport in an absorbing but uneven narrative that does not always live up to the match’s billing.
