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Molly McElwee
Molly McElwee is a journalist specialising in women’s sport and tennis, as well as writing about football and Olympic and Paralympic disciplines. She spent more than five years as a sportswriter for the Daily Telegraph and hosted a podcast called Off The Bench. In 2024 she won the Tom Perrotta Prize, awarded by the International Tennis Writers’ Association (ITWA) to a writer aged 35 or under who shows excellence in tennis journalism.
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'Building Champions'
Since the turn of the century, women’s tennis has established itself as one of the world’s most unpredictable sports. With 36 different Grand Slam champions from 2000 to 2024, upsets have become the norm and underdog triumphs are almost guaranteed.
These young winners are not all serve bots or baseline bruisers hailing from the tennis academy system. Instead, their origin stories differ considerably: a generation of Czech talent eclipsing the richest tennis nations; child prodigies like Coco Gauff, shaped by the guidance of her parents; Kim Clijsters defying the odds to become a comeback champion after giving birth; and Emma Raducanu crafting a coaching rotation system to achieve her fairytale in New York.
This book maps out the complex, remarkable blueprints followed by champions from across the globe—as told by those in their inner circle—and explores what this generation of women can tell us about the future of the game.g an exclusive foreword by Billie Jean KingSince the turn of the ut the future of the game
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