There has never been a period in history where tennis has been so rich in iconic personalities, and recent times have seen more astonishing, history-making stories than ever before. Court Confidential gets right to the heart of what makes the game tick with frank, in-depth interviews with all the leading players, their coaching staff, their agents and managers. Court Confidential will appeal to tennis aficionados everywhere, from the casual observer to the ultra-knowledgeable. Fast-paced, high entertainment, controversial, informative, this is all that a really good sporting book should be.

Author Biography

Neil Harman is the tennis correspondent of The Times, the Sports Newspaper of the Year in 2010, 2011 and 2012, having previously held the same post at the Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Mail, where he was also the football correspondent. He is a former chairman of the Lawn Tennis Writers' Association and president of the International Tennis Writers' Association. In 2005, he won the ATP's Ron Bookman Award for Media Excellence. Two years later he became the SJA's Sports Reporter of the Year, the first time a tennis writer had won the award, and was highly commended in the Specialist Correspondent category. In 2012, he was once again nominated in the Specialist Correspondent category. Neil recently won the BNP Paribas Open Media Award for writers dedicated to tennis.