2019, ISBN: 9781982127886

A riveting chronicle of trailblazing tennis champion and cultural icon Serena Williams’s turbulent 2019 tour season and a revealing portrait of who she is, both on and off the court… Mehr…

A riveting chronicle of trailblazing tennis champion and cultural icon Serena Williams’s turbulent 2019 tour season and a revealing portrait of who she is, both on and off the court.Serena Williams is an undisputed global sports celebrity. Ranked #12 on ESPN’s 2018 World Fame 100 list of popular athletes, thirty-seven-year-old Serena Williams is the only female in the top 20, and she’s one of the highest paid athletes in the world. The face of women’s tennis for the past two decades, Serena is now waging battles on multiple fronts—against age, injuries, and opponents almost twenty years her junior, all while juggling her responsibilities as a new mom. Seeing Serena is an in-depth chronicle of Serena Williams’ return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter, and an insightful cultural analysis of the most consequential female athlete of her time. Author Gerald Marzorati shadows her through her 2019 season, from Melbourne and the Australian Open, to Roland-Garros and Wimbledon, and on to the US Open as she seeks her 24th Grand Slam singles title. He writers about her tennis and her forays into fashion, investing, and developing her personal brand on social media. Seeing Serena illuminates Williams’s singular status as the greatest women’s tennis player of all time and—in a moment when race and gender are the most talked-about topics in America and beyond—a pop icon like no other. Marzorati is on the scene, observing her matches, and talking to her, her coach, her competitors, and former greats who have witnessed her for years. He observes her, listens to her, studies her, explores her roles in society and history—sees Serena fully, in all the ways she has come to matter. Books > Sports & Recreation > Tennis List_Books<

2020, ISBN: 9781982127886

A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer ?a deep, satisfying meditation? … Mehr…

A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer ?a deep, satisfying meditation? (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women's tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and?by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others?changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams's influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams's return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter?from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for The New Yorker, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women's tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators?and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically?reflecting on her many, many facets. The result is an ?enlightening?keen analysis? (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena's singular status as the greatest women's tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other. Books<

2021, ISBN: 9781982127886

Scribner, Gebundene Ausgabe, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-06-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.95 kg, Verkaufsrang: 45, Tennis, Sport & Outdoors, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien,… Mehr…

Scribner, Gebundene Ausgabe, 272 Seiten, Publiziert: 2021-06-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.95 kg, Verkaufsrang: 45, Tennis, Sport & Outdoors, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Frauen, Gemeinschaften & Kultur, People of Color & afroamerikanisch, Politik & Geschichte, Sport allgemein, Sport & Fitness, Ballsportarten, Scribner, 2021<

2021, ISBN: 9781982127886

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Simon & Schuster], Simon & Schuster, 2021