The Courting Lives of an Ageing Tennis Player - Owen, Nick
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"Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world." (Jacques Barzun.) Remember when you were young, and you emulated your sporting heroes in the streets or school playground and were going to win the 100m sprint at the Olympics? The World Cup? Wimbledon? Published in 2021, 'Confessions of an Ageing Tennis Player' tells the story of a man of a certain age - known to himself as 'Lord Andrew John Paul George Ringo Murray of Kirkintilloch' - who lived out those fantasies when he was young and never quite moved on as he grew up. In an…mehr

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"Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world." (Jacques Barzun.) Remember when you were young, and you emulated your sporting heroes in the streets or school playground and were going to win the 100m sprint at the Olympics? The World Cup? Wimbledon? Published in 2021, 'Confessions of an Ageing Tennis Player' tells the story of a man of a certain age - known to himself as 'Lord Andrew John Paul George Ringo Murray of Kirkintilloch' - who lived out those fantasies when he was young and never quite moved on as he grew up. In an ever-increasing world of self delusion and over-identification with the 'real' Andrew Murray, Lord Andrew's imagination frequently gets the better of him. He recounts his surprise win at Wimbledon in 2013, his subsequent elevation to become the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year later that year whilst scheming for his greatest desire: to become the chairman of his local tennis club. All against a backdrop of indifference, incredulity and sometime outright hostility from his peers and the wider tennis world who don't see a Lord Andrew anywhere: just an irritating, pompous and deluded Mr. Arnold Murray of Aigburth. By the end of the story, he has (in his mind) succeeded at his final and most demanding quest of being elected Chairman of his local club: but in the minds of most of the rest of the world, he has become a complete social misfit who causes nothing but chaos everywhere he turns. In his mind, Lord Andrew is about to set up a new regime in his club whilst preparing an assault on his next big challenge, the tennis courts of the Australian Open in Melbourne. In everyone else's mind, he has been arrested on a makeshift raft of burning tennis rackets in the middle of the River Mersey and is about to head off to the local magistrate's court on several charges of aggravated arson. This is where 'Courting Lives' picks up from where 'Confessions' left off. In Courting Lives, Lord Andrew thinks he has won the vote for the club chairmanship and is to be lauded by all before him in the club. His time has come, his victory is total. But not complete. What's the next challenge for the tennis player who's just won Wimbledon? It's to win the next Grand Slam in Australia. So, he goes back to his tennis roots, bades farewell to his club and sets off on his journey over the equator to Melbourne (also known in the 'real' world as HM Prison North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire.) His desire to win the Australian Open in 'Melbourne' however is not straight forward. He has an open prison regime to contend with, opponents who don't play by the book and the ongoing attentions of another champion tennis player, 'Serena Williams'' who has taken pity on Lord Andrew due in no small part to the guilt she feels about her role in banning him from their club in the first place. Courting Lives brings our two main characters back together for another epic tennis final played out in the tennis courts of Melbourne, the magistrates courts of Liverpool and eventually the romantic wilderness of the East Lincolnshire coast line. Despite the overwhelming attraction of 'Serena' however, Lord Andrew has a vocation to fulfil. Having won the Australian Open, his next call is the French Open in March. So looking out to sea, he strides out, determined to swim, walk or paddle across the Atlantic to meet his next big challenge. In everyone else's eyes he has walked off into the North Sea. A Life Boat is launched; there is some small localised concern in Skegness and the question remains whether he has drowned in his line of duty or whether he will survive to contest another tournament. Time will tell...
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