Calling the Shots

My Autobiography

Calling the Shots
Sue Barker
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Hardback
h240 x 156mm - 336pg
29 Sep 2022 UK
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9781529149036
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On her thirtieth and final year hosting Wimbledon for the BBC, tennis and broadcasting legend Sue Barker tells her own story for the first time in this inspiring and personal memoirRewind to 1971, and Sue Barker' s coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protege to a junior championship in France, alone, with a one-way ticket, telling her she' d have to win the money to pay for her return fare. Sue hides in the grounds of the hosting tennis club overnight, to avoid paying for a hotel. The next day, she walks onto court and smashes it. Five years later, and she' s Britain' s No 1. The same combination of grit, grace and talent took her to the top of live Sports TV. And now, after four decades on camera encouraging other legends to tell their stories, she is telling her own. Going all in for her once-only autobiography, Sue takes us inside the showbizzy world of 70s and early 80s tennis, dating the stars, hitting the headlines. She reveals the battles she fought for hard-won success in two careers, gives us a ringside seat on the nation' s biggest sporting dramas, and a fascinating insider' s understanding of competitors under pressure. This is the remarkable life story of a former tennis champion, an award-winning broadcaster who has brought sporting history into our living rooms for decades, of a trail-blazing woman who has always called the shots.
Sue Barker CBE is an award-winning broadcaster and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career she won fifteen WTA singles titles, including a Grand Slam - the French Open in 1976, aged 20. At her career height she was Britain' s No 1 player, with a world ranking of No 3. As a broadcaster, in 2001 she became the first woman to win the Royal Television Society' s best sports presenter award. She led the BBC' s reporting on the Olympics for over a decade, including London 2012. She anchored SPOTY for 19 years, was quizmaster on A Question of Sport for 24 years and has fronted coverage of Wimbledon for the last three decades. In 2020, she won The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award. Sue lives in the Cotswolds with her husband Lance. Calling the Shots is her first book.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781529149036
Published: 29 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Ebury Spotlight
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 40mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 336

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