This is a blog post about tennis. Please bear with me on the somewhat circuitous path leading to it.The aristocratic German nymphomaniac, Countess Franaziska von Reventlow, has in her charming memoirs a chapter entitled "The Era of Pauls." (It sounds better in German, "Das Zeitalter der Paule""kindly excuse the computer's lamentable lack of umlauts.) In the early twentieth century, Schwabing, the bohemian suburb of M…
SOURCE: John Simon at 09:18AM on June 21, 2011