Sunday, September 07, 2025

New Translations on Tennis

Serge Daney also loved tennis and wrote about it, mainly in Libération. I just found two new translations of texts included in the posthumous collection L'amateur de tennis


Birth of the tennis aficionados

First published in Libération on 30th May 1984. Reprinted in L'amateur de tennis, P.O.L., 1992. Translation by Sam Warren Miell.


Borg-McEnroe, or the beauties of pure reason

First published in Libération on 7th July 1984. Reprinted in L'amateur de tennis, P.O.L., 1992. Translation by Sam Warren Miell.