My Story: A Champion's Memoirs
Autobiography
By: William Tilden
Date: 1948
Source: Tilden, William T., II. My Story: A Champion's Memoirs. New York: Hellman, Williams, 1948, 65–66.
About the Author: William Tatem "Bill" Tilden II (1893–1953) was the greatest male tennis player of the 1920s. In 1915, almost totally without roots or direction, Tilden decided to make a study and a career of tennis. He committed himself to the game completely, beginning by coaching at the Germantown Academy without pay. He was first given a national rating as a player in 1915, and a year later entered the U.S. championship matches. He emerged as one of the giants of the game, though later his professional career was cut short when knowledge of his homosexuality finally surfaced. He then moved to Hollywood and had a career in theater.
Introduction
Tennis developed in the late nineteenth century and...
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