I am so excited to be able to reveal my book about professional tennis, ‘The Racket’, will be published on June 6th by Penguin Randomhouse in the UK & Ireland.
Ed Caesar of The New Yorker magazine called it “elegant and powerful…a rich, mordant and affecting portrait.”
Wasn’t expecting this article to pop up this morning in
@IrishTimesSport
. A bittersweet day for sure
For the record, I did not eat a pizza the night before playing Djokovic, though in hindsight I should have 🤣
“A visceral, melancholy and often self-lacerating book, The Racket is up there with Andre Agassi’s Open, even if it is written from a totally different perspective.”
@businessposthq
Privilege to commentate at the World Blind Tennis Champs in Shankill TC this weekend. Some really good players out there. Don't get me started on how difficult it must be to play with partial or no sight. All Legends 👊
“I think about it every day, not in a ‘head in hands’ sort of way but it definitely pops into my head."
On what should have been men's singles final day at Wimbledon, Conor Niland reflects back on his experience at the iconic event.
@Tennis_Ireland
Proud to be back in a
@DavisCup
World Group 1 play off for the second year in a row after our win last weekend.
We play Austria at home in February. 🇮🇪
@Tennis_Ireland
Pre-order the book now with
@easons
and be in with a chance of winning two centre court tickets to Queens in June plus a flight voucher!
#tennis
#theracket
Rafael Nadal describes MENTAL TOUGHNESS:
👊It’s about bringing the right attitude no matter how bad you feel”
👊 “It’s about passion to practice.”
👊 “It’s about the work you put in everyday.”
Applicable to ALL sports & atheltes! Credit:
@BreakPointBR
Swiatek was head & shoulders the best player
@rolandgarros
, exceptional athleticism. 👏👏 looking forward to seeing her tested in Australia against the likes of Barty, Osaka, Andreescu (fingers crossed)
😲 STOP THAT! 😲
Alex de Minaur has pulled off one of the shots of the DECADE, let alone the tournament. 😈🔥
@alexdeminaur
📺 Watch
#Wimbledon
live on
@9gem
and
@channel9
.
🖥️ Every Match. Every Court. Ad-Free. Live and On Demand on
@stansportau
I’m still seething at FIFA that she didn’t win the Puskas Award. Stephanie Roche also deserved to win it in 2014
😂
@StephanieRoche9
@StJosephsBoys
& Girls
🥰"Hi, everyone. I wanna say thank you to you guys and I hope you could enjoy my tennis. I'm thrilled to win. Love you all, see you."
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#EmmaRaducanu
, whose mother is Chinese from Shenyang, China's northeastern Liaoning Province, spoke in mandarin after the
#USOpen
triumph.
Unreal effort from Murray. Well done to Otte too who came through 3 rounds of qualies and won his first round match in a tiebreak at 13-12 in 5th set, albeit on two hips! 🙌
Pete was a very good player and was always professional and ambitious. He achieved a lot and earned everything he got. He will make a top class coach. Well done mate
Not to mention the 3 straight sets wins in qualifying. Raducanu routining the US Open from qualies. Outrageous.
But one more to go against a seriously tough Fernandez
Thanks to
@conorniland1
for popping in & signing some books for us!! Mick read it in a night, which given he is a voracious, but very picky reader is high recommendation! I now have it on my list, which is something, as I don’t think I have ever read anything sports related 😳😂
Those picking Djokovic are saying it with some confidence; those choosing Nadal saying it with a bit of caution.
I’m Nadal, cautiously. Enjoy it folks.
While there are no Tennis4Cancer Ireland club events taking place at the moment, I wanted to post this short video on my personal experience and work with T4C to date.
Hopefully we will be back up and running with T4C events (fairly) soon!
.
@MardyFish
is brave and articulate on his mental health battle in his excellent Netflix doc.
The subtext is Mardy and Andy Roddick’s place between two special generations - Sampras/ Agassi/ Courier (US) and Federer/ Nadal/ Djokovic (Europe).
A lot of great footage too. 👏
Just finished this book. It's a really wonderful read. Amazing to see what tennis players and athletes go through. Never read an account quite like this. Really shows what the struggle is like in unvarnished terms.
@conorniland1
has delivered an all-timer for tennis and sports
I narrated the latest
@guardian
long read podcast, which is available now.
‘The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player 🎾’ by
@conorniland1
A fascinating read!
Anyone for tennis? 🎾🎾
LIT Thurles will take Centre Court in 2019 as plans for an International standard indoor tennis clay court facility were unveiled earlier this week.
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