The essay "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" describes   David Foster Wallace's youth playing this sport.
A man who engages in this activity with "pure Teutonic pleasure" is one of the two subjects of John McPhee's "double profile"  Levels of the Game . A tool used in this activity gives its name to a theorem stating that under certain conditions, an object cannot stably rotate around its intermediate axis. The modern variety of this activity evolved from a "real" version that itself is descended from the older  Jeu de  (*)  paume   (zhuh de POHM) . The essay "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" describes   David Foster Wallace's youth playing this sport. This sport's "Battle of the Sexes" was contested by Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. For 10 points, name this sport played at the Roland Garros complex in France and at Wimbledon in Britain.
A man who engages in this activity with "pure Teutonic pleasure" is one of the two subjects of John McPhee's "double profile"  Levels of the Game .
lawn tennis