Edmund Gordon

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But why has such a boringly perfect tennis player inspired so many writers, wonders Edmund Gordon (worried by his own fascination with Andy Murray)

  • Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession

    William Skidelsky

    Yellow Jersey, pp. 276

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