Tough Draw: The Path to Tennis Glory

Berry, once a nationally ranked junior and pro tennis player, here presents keen analyses of the current court stars' strengths and weaknesses. He also offers an irksome number of unnecessary metaphors and similes, often indulging in such unclear descriptions as ``a man with a 1950s baseball player's body.'' The book's main problem, however, is not the writing but the subjects, since today's tennis stars are simply less interesting than the flamboyant Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe, the icily efficient Chris Evert and Bjorn Borg and the high-powered Martina Navratilova and Ivan Lendl. Hence, interviews with Stefan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Aaron Krickstein, Gabriella Sabatini and Monica Seles, although adroitly conducted, don't have great appeal, and Berry's review of the 1990-1991 season's high points doesn't catch fire. Author tour. ( Sept. )