Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel

“The original redneck Rocky of tennis novels.” —NoirCon

“Comes with highest recommendation.”
—Jon L. Wertheim, Tennis Channel and Sports Illustrated

Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father scrapes a court out of the red clay behind their farmhouse. He is a natural, rising to the top of junior tennis, and at eighteen has great success at the F...