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The Racket

On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99%

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The Racket

Auteur(s): Conor Niland
Narrateur(s): 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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Ce que les critiques en disent

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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This is one of the most compelling books I have listened to. The authors story, along with the fascinating structure of the sport makes for a narritive that is difficult to turn away from. While Conor begins with dreams of winning Wimbledon this quickly devolves into hopes of making it there at all. This is the story of a man who is fighting for his career. Travelling to hidden corners of the world to keep his dreams alive, all while facing off against fellow competitors in the same boat. Fans of any sport should enjoy.

Gutwrenchingly Beautiful

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This is a pretty good book. I took two big takeaways from it.

1- the top 50 tennis players everyone is interested in stand on the shoulders of the other 1000 who get little attention and support
2- there is unfortunately very little camaraderie or support between tennis players. Obviously it is usually a single person sport and the ranking system means it is pretty dog eat dog world, so nobody's helping out an opponent.

While it takes a bit to get into the style of Connor's tone, this is a good read that gives an unflinching and sometimes unappealing view of modern tennis.

get ready for the grind

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