Building Champions
paths to success in women’s tennis
$50.74
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Building Champions: Unveiling the Blueprint of Women’s Tennis Supremacy
Featuring a foreword by Billie Jean King.
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. Inst…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913759230 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1913759237 |
| Author: | Molly McElwee, Billie Jean King |
| Publisher: | Birlinn General |
| Imprint: | Arena Sport |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 307g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 20mm |
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‘This book helps us gain a greater understandings of the way champions were molded by their culture, community and tennis, and are now shaping the sport themselves’
– Billie Jean KingAbout The Author
Molly McElwee
Molly McElwee is a freelance sports journalist writing about women’s sport, football, tennis, Olympic and Paralympic sport. Molly spent more than five years as a sportswriter for the Daily Telegraph, with a key focus on women’s sports and tennis. She has covered major championships at Wimbledon, Roland Garros and in New York as well as the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In 2024, Molly 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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