Tennis Shoes - Noel Streatfeild

Tennis Shoes is the 2nd book in the Shoes Series. n n All the Heath children become interested in tennis and lazy Nicky turns out to be the most talented, so the family tries to get her to enter a tennis championship. The story of a doctor's family, limited in funds, but with boundless ambition. The twins are launched by their grandfather as tennis players, only to find that the trying younger sister has the makings of a champion. So the whole family sets to work to make a tennis player of her and to reduce her ego.