Houghton Signs Book on Federer-Nadal Match

By Rachel Deahl -- Publishers Weekly, 7/9/2008

Dubbed "the greatest match I've ever seen" by John McEnroe, Sunday's nearly five-hour Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal was almost immediately declared a historic moment in sports. Luckily for Houghton Mifflin one of their top sports authors, under contract to do a tennis book, was in the stands reporting from the All England Club. Now the house has a jump on a title about a sports moment that wowed more than just tennis fans.

L. Jon Wertheim, who wrote a cover story about the match for this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, has signed to deliver Strokes of Genius for 2009. According to Wertheim's editor, Susan Canavan, the book came out of "one of those rare moments" when you have a writer who's very much in the right place at the right time.
The full story at PW online.