Will Carrie win? And, more importantly, will she finally make time for a life outside of winning? Reid has scored another victory and created another memorable heroine with Carrie Soto, a brash, often unlikable character whose complexity makes her leap off the page. Reid writes about the game with suspense, transforming a tennis match into a page-turner even for readers who don’t care about sports. Now they need to help each other train, but Carrie quickly realizes she might need him for more than just tennis-if she can let herself be vulnerable for the first time in her life.

Along the way, she reconnects with Bowe Huntley, a 39-year-old tennis player she once had a fling with.

At times, it seems like everyone is waiting for her to fail, but when Carrie wants something, she doesn’t give up easily. Carrie was never a friendly player, preferring to focus on both a brutal game and brutal honesty, and now the media has a field day with her return to the sport as a 37-year-old. Nicki is on the verge of breaking Carrie’s record, and Carrie decides she can’t let that happen: She’s coming out of retirement, with her father coaching her, to defend her record…and her reputation. But then, in 1994, Nicki Chan comes along. By the time she retires in 1989, she holds the record for winning 20 Grand Slam singles titles. Her father, Javier, is a former tennis champion himself, and he's dedicated his life to coaching her.

A retired tennis player returns to the game to defend her Grand Slam record.Ĭarrie Soto is the best tennis player in the world, and she knows it.

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