検索キーワード： "GOLDEN★AGE" エッセイ・解説

Before a great investigative story reaches the page or screen, there is another story the audience almost never sees. There are sources to win over, doors to knock on, documents to find, editors to convince, lawyers to satisfy, powerful people pushing back—and countless leads that go nowhere...

No sport has gone through the seismic changes that rocked tennis when the game, long a holdout against professionalism and creeping commercialism, abandoned its roots as a genteel, amateurs-only enterprise and became a pro sport, vying for the heart of the public with rivals like soccer, NFL football, or NBA basketball. Peter Bodo, who has covered tennis since the dawn of this "Open" era as the chief writer for Tennis magazine, was there to witness this transition and what it promised, what it delivered. He has covered the game on every continent since the early 1970s.