Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
	Tennis	3
	Beggars Would Ride	13
	The Return of Service	23
	Rackets and Riches at Wimbledon	35
	The Tennis Court	41
	In the Land of Dreamy Dreams	53
	Mother Coakley's Reform	69
	Return to Return	77
	The Tennis Game	115
	Tennis by Cable	135
	An FBI Story	138
	The Facts of Life	153
	Pat-Ball	179
	Lolita (excerpt)	184
	The Tennis Player	194
	A Fairly Regular Four	212
	Mixed Doubles	221
	The Blacktop Champion of Ickey Honey	235
	Balance His, Swing Yours	274
	The Tennis Court	286
	The Phantom Drive	296
	Matilda's England (I. The Tennis Court)	313
	A Lawn-Tennisonian Idyll	341
	Tennis	344
	A Subaltern's Love-song	345
	The Olympic Girl	348
	On Watching a Young Man Play Tennis	350
	Tennis in San Juan	352
	My Tennis Pro Is Shot	354
	Doc Stavic Coaches	356
	Tennis Elbow	358
	Watching Tennis	360
	A Dialogue Concerning the Question Whether a Tennis Ball May be Said to Hanker for the Other Side of the Net	361
	On the Tennis Court at Night	363
	Autumn: Evening Tennis	366
	Prothalamion	368
	Clobber the Lobber	369
	Tennis Instructor, 1971, (from "Two Summer Jobs")	370
	Tennis	375
	The Old Pro's Lament	377
	Tennis	379
	Bjorn Borg	384
	The Pregnant Lady Playing Tennis	385
	A Snapshot for Miss Bricka Who Lost in the Semi-Final Round of the Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Tournament at Haverford, July, 1960	387
	The Tennis	389
	Permissions	391
	Author Biographies	395