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Robert J. Lake
Robert J. Lake is in the Department of Sport Science at Douglas College, Vancouver, Canada. His main research interests are in sport history and the sociology of sport, focusing on socio-cultural issues and themes, particularly related to the sport of tennis. This includes social class and exclusion, gender, race, and national identity, alongside coaching, talent development, politics, policy and media. His first book ‘A Social History of Tennis in Britain’ (Routledge, 2015) won the 2016 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize awarded by the British Society of Sports History.