THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'As elegant and powerful as a Federer backhand ... It’s Kitchen Confidential for tennis.' Ed Caesar‘Witty and insightful … an homage to the game he clearly still loves’ ***Irish Times'***A crushing reminder of the grist from which sporting greatness emerges' The Economist

Brought to you by Penguin.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 Djokov...