The Tournament (novel)

"The Tournament" is a 2002 novel written by New Zealand-born Australian satirist John Clarke, depicting a fictional international tennis tournament held in Paris where a variety of notable twentieth century literary, cultural and scientific figures are competitors.

Several other identities appear: Charles Darwin is the tournament referee, for example, and Friedrich Nietzsche is the "president and CEO of Nike". Oscar Wilde and James McNeil Whistler provide commentary. Roland Barthes, Emmeline Pankhurst, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and many others are sports reporters covering the match. A demonstration doubles match features Henrik Ibsen and Claude Monet vs. Henry James and Mark Twain.

Coaches

*America: Ernie Hemingway

Players in the match

Men

*Jean Arp
*Leon Bakst
*Béla Bartók
*Sam Beckett
*Bix Beiderbecke
*Ambrose Bierce
*Bertolt Brecht
*Bill Burroughs
*Hoagy Carmichael
*Ray Chandler
*Tony Chekhov
*Marcel Duchamp
*Albert Einstein
*Enrico Fermi
*SuperTom Eliot
*Duke Ellington
*Bill Fields
*Hermann Hesse
*Fred Hitchcock
*James Joyce
*Attila József
*Carl Jung
*Arthur Koestler
*Ernst Lubitsch
*René Magritte
*Gustav Mahler
*Willie Maugham
*Alan Milne
*Vaslav Nijinsky
*Pablo Picasso
*Marcel Proust
*Little Bertie Russell
*Jean-Paul "JPS" Sartre
*Jerry Salinger
*Alexander Scriabin
*Arturo Toscanini
*Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
*Fats Waller
*Herbie Wells
*Butch Whitman
*Plum Wodehouse
*Big Bill Yeats

Women

*Nancy Astor
*Simone de Beauvoir
*Sylvia Beach
*Sarah Bernhardt
*Enid Blyton
*Isadora Duncan
*Amelia Earhart
*Greta Garbo
*Mary Garden
*Melanie Klein
*Rosa Luxemburg
*Mary McCarthy
*Anna Pavlova
*Leni Riefenstahl
*Gertrude Stein
*Edna St Vincent Millay
*Virginia Stephen-Woolf
*Sybil Thorndike