Double Fault: My Rise and Fall, and My Road Back Review

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Double Fault: My Rise and Fall, and My Road Back ReviewAs a tennis fan, I enjoyed this book. Is it great literature or life altering? No. But if you want a quick summary of Roscoe's life and enjoyable times in the opening era of professional tennis, it's all here.
Raised in an upper middle class background in the South, Roscoe quickly summarizes his early life and influences and how he fell into tennis. Given the incredible amount of work required today to be a professional, it's almost laughable how a talented individual such as Roscoe could stumble into a professional career given that it wasn't the focus of his life as required to survive in today's tennis world.
One of the first interesting facts learned was Tanner's recruitment at Stanford. After signing with Tennessee, he eventually goes to Stanford and is considered by some as the most important recruit at the university as at that time UCLA and USC were clearly the best teams in the Pac-8 and the nation. Roscoe and subsequent teammates like Sandy Mayer changed all of that.
From a stellar college career Roscoe moves on to the pros with a wife in tow and the thrills of the road overcome his marriage. Ironically, he divorces his wife over a Colorado girlfriend who immediately clarifies that this was only a fling for her, poetic justice at its best. The book becomes somewhat of a whitewash of his extracurricular activity outside of marriage including in passing a call girl encounter that leads to a child. One can only think that this wasn't the first time that the book seems to imply. From there it's a quick downward spiral in to poor investments and dishonesty that end with him in jail and deeply in debt. His stories of jail bring home how this wealthy child/adult could have fallen so far. With a quick credit to religion, Tanner presents a happy ending that one can only roll your eyes at. I wish him the best but it's easier to present your side in a book than actually live it. I did however, recently hit with a pro in Orange County that talked of Roscoe and had nothing but good things to say about his current commitment. I hope that ends up being the case.
The most interesting part of the book to this tennis fan was Tanner's description of life on the tour with the other pros. While close to his age, I wasn't aware that Tanner was doubles partner with Arthur Ashe. This brings up many interesting stories and Tanner actually does a better job describing Ashe's personality than he does his own.
In closing I would say I really enjoyed this book. Mainly because the subject is of extreme interest. Did the book go into enough depth on Roscoe? Absolutely not and that would be my main disappointment. But it is an enjoyable read of a tennis legend and for me that was enough.
Double Fault: My Rise and Fall, and My Road Back OverviewRoscoe Tanner, one of the 10 best tennis players during the seventies and eighties, was the good boy of the sport during the advent of the brash and flamboyant tennis star. In this highly captivating personal account, Tanner revisits his career and shares his stories about the game and the players who made tennis a buzz sport during his era. Tanner's life after tennis was much less charmed, however, and included a year in jail. His life spun out of control following a series of bad choices that hurt himself and others—including those he loved the most. He writes with fresh honesty about this period, as well as his efforts to rebuild his life.

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