#TopTenTuesday Game, Set & Match – 10 Books Featuring Tennis Players

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is a freebie, in other words we’re asked to come up with our own topic. I’m not quite sure how I arrived at this idea but my list is all about books that feature tennis players.

Tennis Shoes by Noel Streatfield – Four children with tennis in their blood join the competitive tournament circuit.
Double Fault by Lionel Shriver – An ardent middle-ranked professional tennis player, Willy Novinsky meets her match in Eric Oberdorf, the handsome rogue she drubs in a pick-up game in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. 
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie – What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player?
Playing the Moldovans at Tennis by Tony Hawks – An outrageous bet sends Tony Hawks on a travel adventure in an attempt to beat the members of the Moldovan soccer team at tennis.
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty – The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. Stan and Joy, are killers on the tennis court. The four Delaney children were tennis stars in their own right yet none of them had what it took to go all the way.
Beautiful Country by J. R. Thornton – A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team.
Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid – A legendary athlete attempts a comeback when the world considers her past her prime.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace – A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America, set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy.
Love, Break, Service, Victory: A Tale from the Titanic by Lesley Gibbs – The remarkable true story of the intertwined lives of Dick Williams and Karl Behr who survived the sinking of the Titanic and went on to have Hall of Fame tennis careers. 
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith –  This one should really be ruled ‘Out’ because it’s only in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 film version that Guy Haines, one of the two main characters, is a tennis player; in the original book he’s an architect.