Calling the Shots: My Autobiography

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It is then that her second career started and she became a sports commentator, not only for tennis but other sports too: Royal Ascot, Olympics, London Marathon, Commonwealth Games, World Athletics Championships, Winter Olympics Championships, BBC Sports Personality of the year and many more. I enjoyed this autobiography and feel really honoured to review it through my membership of NetGalley. It is beautifully written and there is a whole wealth of interesting facts for you to discover. Luckily she won the junior championship there, but she hid herself away the night before because she had no money to pay for a room in the hotel.

She played well through each match, swinging her hugely admired dangerous weapon, her famous forehand and it is there she won the ladies final Championship with a score sheet of 62-06-62. At age fifteen Arthur sent his protégée to France all alone, telling her she had better win so that she could buy a return ticket back home. It’s not all about her own experiences on the tennis court; there are the other wonderful players she knows so well, her private life, her worldwide travelling and lots of other TV personalities that she calls good mates.

Now on the WAT tour (Women's Tennis Association) and with some great wins behind her, Sue is back in France playing at Roland Garros, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments most revered in the world. There is so much more in this true story than I have written about in Sue Barker’s autobiography. I didn’t know even the half of it.

She will be sorely missed. This covers 66 years of Sue’s life, family, friendships, major worldwide events and more. Sadly she was forced to retire in 1984 because of injury. Sue was the British number one lady player and the world number three at her very best.