Tennis as a mirror of life: Andrea Petković bridges the gap between sports and literature
What does life as one of the world’s best female tennis players actually feel like? How do you strike a balance between the necessary conviction of victory and voracious self-doubt? How do you continue to love the game despite crushing defeats and nerve-wrecking injuries? And how do you maintain friendships in a world of rivalry and constant travel? In her literary debut, former top ten player Andrea Petković offers inspiration through her deeply honest and touching stories.
She takes us into the world of a fascinating sport that is as uncontrollable and exciting as life itself. Smart, poetic, and with a great deal of warmhearted humor, she tells stories from her childhood and youth as the daughter of migrants from former Yugoslavia, about heartbreaking encounters on and off the tennis court, about her torn Serbian-German soul and wild nights in New York City, about female bodies in competitive sports – and about her great love of literature and music.
Not just for tennis lovers, Petković’s debut as a literary author is a moving and funny homage to the ups and downs of life that reaches far beyond tennis.
“All I know about tennis is that tennis lovers are also lovers of life. Those who love tennis, love life.”
