The Fantastic Confabulations of an Ageing Tennis Player

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What’s the greatest gift to anyone? Giving them their memory back.

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.  Moving seamlessly from sporting zero to hero and back again during Wimbledon in 2013 when Andy Murray was the first British male player to win there in decades, our Lord Andrew is the classic unreliable narrator whose words must never be taken at face value.

By the end of the story, he has succeeded at his final and most demanding quest of being elected Chairman of his local club. Some time later he continues his success by winning the Australian Open in Melbourne amongst much Covid-19 inspired delirium and thwarted love stories via The Courting Lives of an Ageing Tennis Player.  His determination to win the third Grand Slam in is played Paris and beyond in the third book in the series, Les Conquêtes Normandes d’un Tennisman Vieillissant where the thwarted love stories continue and take on a darker tone as his fans become more fanatical: ambition, delusion, unrequited love… it’s all here in Les Conquêtes Normandes.

Inspired by Rip Van Winkle, the short story by Washington Irving, The Fantastic Confabulations of an Ageing Tennis Player is the fourth and final book in this ‘Confessions’ series. Picking up from where Les Conquêtes Normandes left off and concludes Lord Andy’s quest for sanity through the crucible that is the 2025 US Open Tennis Championships, played out at Flushing Meadows.  The GOAT to end all GOAT arguments?  All will be revealed on Sunday 7 September after the Mens Finals of the 2025 US Open Tennis Championships.