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Fifty-nine year-old tennis pro, Wally Wilson just wants his life easy. A U.S. Open champion who’s been banned from the tour because of age, he’s back teaching on a private court in the Silicon Valley burbs. No more facing down tall teens with big forehands, or his own creaky back. Instead, his days are spent telling venture lions and tech stars to watch the ball, bend their knees, and shut off their phones.

But when the family mini-van flatlines on a college visit road trip, and his agent promises ready cash for a two-day exhibition, he’s thrown neck-deep into a world of score-fixing, art forging, juiced octogenarians, and a coffee table book of naked pictures of his wife. Agreeing to one last money match seemed like a good idea. Wally never imagined it would cost him his chill. And make him cancel so many lessons.

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MARCUS PAUL COOTSONA is a tennis professional, lapsed playwright and the author of OCCAM'S RACQUET and the tennis novel, SLAMMIN'. He is also a contributor to Inside Tennis magazine. He lives in Northern California with his wife and a sublime, ridiculous dog. He is not a former Navy SEAL. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Marta Cheng

Game...Set...Match!

Reviewed in Canada on 9 November 2016

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Rubber Match is an imaginative work of fiction by talented author Marcus Cootsona that will have readers chuckling in delight over the author’s uncoventional characters that populate his story with such unabashed glee.

Fifty-nine-year-old tennis teaching pro, Wally Wilson, along with his gorgeous wife, Danielle, and their seventeen-year-old son, Deuce, are heading down Interstate 5 to San Diego, en route to check out all that the University of San Diego has to offer their reluctant son. Unfortunately, young Deuce’s aspirations heavily favor a Vegas magic act over academia, thanks to his uncanny ability to “speak, move and flat palm a waffle iron”. Halfway to their destination, their tired 2003 Honda Odyssey minivan seizes before dying altogether, leaving them stranded along the interstate. As Wally is on hold with the auto club, he receives a phone call from his younger brother, Willy, who convinces the former Grand Slam tennis champion (by transitivity and disqualification) to head on over to the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa to participate in the Crotch Support Super Cup charity event. With the two hundred grand prize money the needed enticement to replace their currently dead mode of transport, Wally excitedly agrees. Once there, however, he’s shocked to learn that it’s not a tennis match he’ll be participating in but a golf tournament – something he’s barely proficient at. Even more shocking is the fact that little bro, Willy, who barely has to nickels to rub together at the best of times, is suddenly flush and not shy about showing it off. Add to this their daughter’s very rich best friend, and a stolen Dutch masterpiece and you’ve got yourself one huckuva good story. Cootsona’s prose is light and engaging and always witty. His cast of unconventional characters add just the right amount of spice to an already interesting story line that will have readers quickly flipping the pages just to find out how it all comes together at the end!

alinefromabook

He is happily married to a gorgeous woman

Reviewed in the United States on 29 October 2016

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Tennis lovers stand up and cheer! This story takes the reader into the world of Wally, the tennis pro. Wally is fifty-nine years old and had an inadvertent victory two years previously. He is happily married to a gorgeous woman, and they have two grown children. The story begins while they are on a road trip with their son to tour college campuses. And then the minivan dies on the side of the freeway. What follows is the craziest sequence of events you can ever imagine, which will take them from their home in California to the plains of Nebraska. Along the way, Wally is picked to play in the Davis Cup, a painting is stolen (or maybe forged), and a young millionairess solves all of Wally’s problems.

I found this story charming and full of little delights. Wally and his family will completely draw you in and make you feel right at home. The plot has lots of twists to keep you guessing and reading. My only challenge with the story is that it is so tennis terminology heavy and I am completely ignorant about tennis. That being said, I still enjoyed the story. The author has a distinct sense of humor and uses it liberally throughout. If you love tennis this is an obvious choice but it’s also worth considering if you’re looking for something a little different to read.

John H. Manhold

Amusingly unconventional story of tennis and assorted other activities

Reviewed in the United States on 23 October 2016

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Rubber Match, an unusual tennis story in e-book by Marcus Paul Cootsona.
Plot: the reader is introduced to Wally Woodrow Wilson a 59-year-old tennis professional with his most attractive wife Danielle who are visiting colleges with their high school senior son Deuce who is quite adept at various form of magic and would prefer to try his hand in Las Vegas. They are accompanied by their red merle Australian Shepard, Rod Laver, the dog. They also have a daughter Addie who is in college and has a best friend, Ashley Margincall. Ashley is the daughter of an immensely rich parent who gives her huge amounts of money which apparently she employs in a highly successful entrepreneurial manner. From this point the story takes off to provide a tale of a stolen Dutch masterpiece painting, search for which involves Wally, his family and a host of other amusingly unconventional characters in a rambling story most prominently involving a remake of the format of the Davis Cup Tennis Tournament.
Discussion: The author is a highly regarded tennis professional and “lapsed playwright” with two other books and routine contributions to Tennis Magazine to his credit. His story here is an amusingly presented parody of tennis - and more specifically of the Davis Cup Format. Here he references the changing mentality of modern society. Tennis was begun in another era when life moved at a more leisurely pace. Today the average attention span of any millennial, the fastest growing group of consumers, has been found to be EIGHT SECONDS. Thus sports are increasingly being criticized for time consumed. Golf is ridiculous; 3 hours of football includes actual playing time of 11 minutes; baseball, 18 minutes; tennis time wise, probably is the best at 31 minutes of activity in 3 hours. An interesting example the author provides is the fact that Nadal takes as much as 45 seconds between shots compared with a match in 1969 between John Newcome (deceased Australia) and Rod Laver where time between shots routinely was clocked at 6 seconds. With respect to the flow of the story, it does so nicely except for some slightly annoying proofing errors more prominent in the later pages. Of particular interest and fascination to this reader was the author’s inclusion in this zany story of a deeper conviction: “96 % of the universe is dark matter. Nobody has seen it. Nobody may ever know how it works. That’s you.” You are controlled by destiny. “So, you can’t sit back and ask destiny to do its worst. Because it will. And nothing will happen. At least nothing good. You have to participate. With faith. And with goodwill. And without expectation. The way to be in control is to make a decision. Even if it seems risky.” A most thoughtful suggestion.

Jessica McC

Review – Rubber Match by Marcus Paul Cootsona

Reviewed in the United States on 14 December 2016

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It is easy to think of the novel rubber Match as a journey into the improbable. It centers on a former tennis pro and US Open winner, Wally Wilson, now a teaching pro, who surprisingly gets the call to represent the USA in the Davis Cup. Unfortunately for Wally, with 60 gaining on him fast, he feels past his prime, but a convergence of circumstances makes it difficult for him to refuse.

The story starts with the most mundane of settings, with Wally, his wife Danielle and their son Deuce taking a trip to look at colleges. The battle of wills that ensues offers the first glimpse of the humor that Cootsona so effectively infuses into the story.

Chock full of cultural references and brimming with engaging dialogue, Rubber Match is a story that you are not likely to forget. The author uses many familiar names from the world of tennis, but it is the other characters who propel the story. With Wally and his family caught up in a mystery, you will see that there is more at stake than just the biggest tennis match of his life.

This could easily have gotten a 4.5 stars if I knew how to give that rating.

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Grady Harp

“You’re a tributary guy. Not some boring main-streamer.’

Reviewed in the United States on 20 October 2016

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California author Marcus Paul Cootsona has three novels to his credit thus far – OCCAM’S RACQUET: 12 SIMPLE STEPS TO SMARTER TENNIS, SLAMMIN’ and now RUBBER MATCH. It is no surprise he is a tennis teaching professional. He also is a member of the Wilson Advisory Staff and has been three times named "Tennis Specialty Retailer of the Year". That he also happens to possess a polished sense of humor is evident from his previous books as well as the opening of his current novel.

Marcus’s bio states he is a lapsed playwright a fact that some how helps us jump into the style of razor sharp, richly atmospheric and intelligent prose that fills every page of this book. For example, try this opening page – ‘Three clotted freeways and one toney toll road in the rear view, Wally Wilson and his wife Danielle were about an hour out of la heading south on i-5 at or near the posted on a hot August day. Their 2003 Honda Odyssey ex minivan with onboard navigation and a hundred and sixty grand on the meter was paddling along like a salt-whipped sloop, determined to stay afloat purely out of age and stubbornness. Seventeen year-old Deuce Wilson shared the backseat with their red merle Australian Shepard, Rod Laver the Dog, and was palming, finger-rolling, and vanishing Susan B’s. A lone playing card floated benignly in the air to his right. Deuce had been quiet since Bixby Knolls, but teenage wheels were turning. Just past the San Onofre nuclear plant he spoke. “Why can’t I be an autodidact?” he asked, in his almost-Joseph- Gordon-Levitt voice. The JGL, incidentally, from ‘Looper’ not ‘Brick’. “An auto-deduct?” said Wally. “An autodidact,” he said. “A self-taught person.” Family interaction, contemporary conversation topics, and a keen play on words are such a welcome treat in a novel we expect to be just another tennis novel!

Marcus teases us with an occult synopsis: ‘Fifty-nine year-old Atherton tennis teaching pro and family man Wally Wilson won the 2011 U.S. Open behind 250 mph serves and a timely disqualification, and was promptly banned from professional tennis. Two years later, Wally is picked to play Davis Cup, framed for stealing a Dutch masterwork, and hunted by obsessive-compulsive Mounties. There goes his nap.’

This story loops through gyrations in a manner that even adds conspiracy twists to the pot along with the very zesty realities and misconceptions of generational gaps. But a bit more from the text – ‘Each day when he arrived at American Compound court four, he encountered some new and seemingly irrelevant obstacle set up for him by Bump Key and Arqane. Tuesday, he served from a tilted raised platform. Wednesday, in extreme wind. Thursday, in airport runway decibel noise. And Friday, over a five-foot net. What was the deal? D Cup crowds were known to be rowdy and loud, but they had never tilted the court, summoned a hurricane, or raised the net by two feet, at least that he could remember. Besides, he was a teaching pro who’d also played in the juniors. There was no weird stroke or court condition he hadn’t seen. He could deal with any of it. His under-practiced strokes could stay undistinguished in any situation. So, he went about his business and served his three thousand serves in each day and managed to get his consistency to eighty percent in every odd condition. That small triumph, an Epicurean’s acceptance of Addie’s latest inspiration bombshell, and a willing surrender to Danielle’s new career, and he figured that he’d he covered the silt shiftings.’

Bravado accomplishment in writing, this. Now, if only his plays were accessible …..Grady Harp, October 16

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