“To approach tennis with ‘love’ may be dangerous if, as Oscar Wilde wrote, ‘each man kills the thing he loves’ – whether because that love is too obsessive or too critical. Many critics believed that ‘love’ in tennis was dangerous – that the very fact of this word being used in the scoring system rendered it unmanly. But love is also a hopeful word of celebration; and in the end, the point of writing about tennis is to celebrate the beauty, the glamour and the joy of this unique game.”
