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2022: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.
2022: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.
At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the ‘Battle-Axe’ anyway. Even if her body doesn’t move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.
In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season.
Tennis around the world
This is the novel of all things tennis. You get drawn into a world of top tennis and feel every strain, every tear, drop of sweat and the blood. Oh the blood. This is a busy and fast world. Very tense and dramatic. Dangerous even….
When you are the best, top of your game you might play at Flushing in the USA. What about the French Open in Paris? Or perhaps at the famous Wimbledon stadium?
All there on the map but the real action is well within the pages of this book.
Destination: USA, New York City Author/guide: Taylor Jenkins Reid Departure Time: 2022
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