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The Racket

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

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The Racket

De : Conor Niland
Lu par : Conor Niland
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When Conor Niland was 16, he got the chance to hit with Serena Williams at Nick Bollettieri's famed tennis academy. Conor, the Irish junior number one, was feeling a bit homesick. Serena, also 16, already owned her own house beside the academy.

Conor Niland knows what it's like when Roger Federer walks into the dressing room ('Ciao, bonjour, hello!'), and he has had the exquisitely terrible experience of facing Novak Djokovic in the world's biggest tennis stadium - while suffering from food poisoning. But he never reached the very top.

The Racket is the story of pro tennis's 99%: the players who roam the globe in hope of climbing the rankings and squeaking into the Grand Slam tournaments. It brings us into a world where a few dozen super-rich players - travelling with coaches and physios - share a stage with lonely touring pros whose earnings barely cover their expenses. Painting a vivid picture of the social dynamics on tour, the economics of the game, and the shadows cast by gambling and doping, The Racket is a witty and revealing underdog's memoir and a unique look inside a fascinating hidden world.

©2024 Conor Niland (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand … It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis (Ed Caesar)
A brilliant, unvarnished look at a brutal sporting life. (Michael Foley)
An entertaining behind-the-scenes glimpse at life on the global tour
Conor Niland may only have managed a career-high ranking of 129 – only? that is some achievement in itself! – but The Racket, his account of how he managed this, is up there with the best half-dozen books on tennis ever written. (Geoff Dyer)
A thoughtfully constructed memoir … plenty of self-deprecating humour, poignancy and insight to make this a page-turner
A visceral, melancholy and often self-lacerating book … History is usually written by the winners, but this intelligent, unvarnished, emotionally draining memoir shows why an also-ran’s perspective can be just as valuable (Andrew Lynch)
A crushing reminder of the grist from which sporting greatness emerges
One of the best Irish sports books of the last decade (Kieran Shannon)
A fascinating, self-deprecating insight into the life of a tennis professional who isn’t one of the prize-grabbing elite
A stone-cold classic. The story of Conor Niland’s life in professional tennis … recently became the third Irish book ever win the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. And deservedly so. (Malachy Clerkin)
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Insights into a sport that people only know the sunny sides and grand stages of. A Must-Read for any avid tennis fan!

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Stumble across this on the Mario Rosenstock podcast. Couldn't help but binge this enjoyable book.
Kudos from somehow who came to sporting life too late to make any impact myself.

Enjoyed this immensely

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Conor Niland has written a profound account of what a tennis professional career looks like for most Players on the circuit, who remain anonymous to the public and end up burning through money without ever making it to the big stage. Though it is not in any way motivating and inspirational as other Tennis biographies mostly try to be, it is a very honest account, that I believe the majority of pro players can relate to. It also shows, how the general disparity in our economies and societies carries over to the sport of tennis, where the best get excessive paychecks, while the much bigger rest gets peanuts. Lastly as an amateur player You will love the inside account of his match against Mannarino at Wimbledon, almost point by point going through momentum shifts and an emotional rollercoaster which any tennis player who plays competetive tennis can relate to. The book is a no brainer to read for anybody who plays tennis, but I also recommend it to tennis parents and young aspiring players dreaming of a pro career at some point of their life. Conor has really aced it with this book!

An honest look at a Tennis pro career

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