{"id":220334,"date":"2025-06-28T03:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220334\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T03:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T03:53:18","slug":"six-books-about-tenniss-greatest-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220334\/","title":{"rendered":"Six books about tennis\u2019s greatest players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">FOR TWO WEEKS every year, tennis fans focus their attention on a leafy suburb in south-west London. The Wimbledon Championships are regarded as the most traditional and prestigious of the four Grand Slam tournaments. (It is the only one to enforce a predominantly all-white dress code, for instance.) Wimbledon is a place where new stars of the game are spotted\u2014as with Roger Federer\u2019s victory over Pete Sampras in 2001\u2014and fading ones hope to go out in a blaze of glory. To better understand what it takes to succeed on Centre Court, pick up one of these books about a few of the greatest players ever to pick up a racket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOR TWO WEEKS every year, tennis fans focus their attention on a leafy suburb in south-west London. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,2766,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}