The Circuit
A Tennis Odyssey

It takes a Poet to do justice to the 2017 men's tennis tour, because it was the year in this past decade of the most unlikely change of guard, a schooling of the new-and-upcoming stars by the experienced statesmen of old. And in this book we have Phillips, a poet, resting from rupturing his Achilles......more

As it’s said there’s no better tennis player that inspired worse thought or writing than Federer. I’m not going to try and do justice to what Federer meant to me as a insomniac looking for literally anything to watch at 3AM and falling in love in the mid aughts but 2017 season was the last spectacul......more

Sure, it's great fun to read. If you're a tennis fan you know the 2017 season was bonkers, and if you're a Fed or Nadal fan you know the 2017 season was transcendentally bonkers. So going over all the important matches of that year from an insider's perspective should be a walk in the park, and it is......more

He doesn't like Nadal, so -1......more

Title: The Circuit. When I saw this book at the library, I expected it to be about the grind of the Tennis year, the lifestyle of players and insight into tourneys. Well, the book is an overview of the 2017 season which i thought would fulfill my hopes of an overview of the yearly tennis circuit. My......more