World of Tennis


World of Tennis was the International Tennis Federation's official tennis annual until it was replaced by The ITF Year. It was published annually beginning in 1969 and became an official ITF publication in 1981. World of Tennis was edited by John Barrett and from 1970 to 1990 compiled by Lance Tingay. Its final edition was World of Tennis 2001, describing the ITF's activities in 2000.

The list of published books

  1. Year Book of World Tennis – 272 pages, Rod Laver on cover page
  2. Year Book of World Tennis 1970 – 288 pages, Rod Laver on cover page
  3. World of Tennis '71 – 320 pages, Ken Rosewall on cover page
  4. World of Tennis '72 – 351 pages, Newcombe/King/Smith/Goolagong on cover page
  5. World of Tennis '73 – 352 pages, King/Nastase/Smith on cover page
  6. World of Tennis '74 – 352 pages, Nastase/Court on cover page
  7. World of Tennis '75 – 352 pages, Jimmy Connors on cover page
  8. World of Tennis '76 – 352 pages, Arthur Ashe on cover page
  9. World of Tennis 1977 – 384 pages, Björn Borg on cover page
  10. World of Tennis 1978 – 416 pages, Virginia Wade on cover page
  11. World of Tennis 1979 – 416 pages, Björn Borg on cover page
  12. World of Tennis 1980 – 416 pages, Tracy Austin on cover page
  13. World of Tennis 1981 – 416 pages, John McEnroe on cover page
  14. World of Tennis 1982 – 416 pages, Chris Evert on cover page
  15. World of Tennis 1983 – 416 pages, Jimmy Connors on cover page
  16. World of Tennis 1984 – 416 pages, Martina Navratilova on cover page
  17. World of Tennis 1985 – 480 pages, John McEnroe on cover page
  18. World of Tennis 1986 – 480 pages, Boris Becker on cover page
  19. World of Tennis 1987 – 480 pages, Ivan Lendl on cover page
  20. World of Tennis 1988 – 512 pages, Steffi Graf on cover page
  21. World of Tennis 1989 – 480 pages, Steffi Graf on cover page
  22. World of Tennis 1990 – 480 pages, Boris Becker / Steffi Graf on cover page
  23. World of Tennis 1991 – 448 pages, Stefan Edberg on cover page
  24. World of Tennis 1992 – 448 pages, Guy Forget / Henri Leconte on cover page
  25. World of Tennis 1993 – 464 pages, Jennifer Capriati on cover page
  26. World of Tennis 1994 – 464 pages, Pete Sampras on cover page
  27. World of Tennis 1995 – 474 pages, Arantxa [Sánchez Vicario] on cover page
  28. World of Tennis 1996 – 512 pages, Andre Agassi on cover page
  29. World of Tennis 1997 – 512 pages, Todd Woodbridge / Mark Woodforde on cover page
  30. World of Tennis 1998 – 544 pages, Hingis/Rafter/Rosewall/Court on cover page
  31. World of Tennis 1999 – 544 pages, Novotna/Hingis/Rafter on cover page
  32. World of Tennis 2000 – 544 pages, Agassi/Sampras/Graf/Davenport on cover page
  33. World of Tennis 2001 – 543 pages, Sampras/Kafelnikov/V.Williams/Hewitt on cover page