Frankly, it looks silly now that he’s still talking about a relationship that was never really more than a friendship. During her tennis career she won fifteen WTA singles titles, including a Grand Slam - the French Open in 1976, aged 20. Actually I have to get that comment right, Sue's two careers, a tennis career, and a television career. Sue Barker never managed to get to the dizzy heights of the before mentioned superstars but she was very competitive, won a grand slam and then went on to have a career in the media. Remember that rainy day in 1996, when Cliff was asked to entertain the Centre Court spectators while they waited for play to resume?

But I was intrigued to read about her being drawn into sports commentary and anchoring at great sporting events beyond tennis. What you do get reading this book is the warmth of a tennis player and television celebrity who is close to her family and made lots of true friends throughout her life, many of who are household names. The broadcaster, who had a brief romance with the “Summer Holiday” singer in 1981, has shared her frustrations with Richard for continuing to “harp on about me” 40 years on. She is clearly immensely proud of her broadcast career and it struck me that it would seem more than her tennis career, but not really surprising given the span of her broadcasting.Meanwhile, Jill, now sharing my flat, was chatting happily every day to Bill, who was holidaying with Cliff. The Shadows had cheered me on and I’d given them a hug, promising to come to their concert in London.

Going all in for her once-only autobiography, Sue takes us inside the showbizzy world of 70s and early 80s tennis. This is a very cosy but enjoyable read, there are no startling revelations, gossip or anything that will cause bad feelings.She reveals the battles she fought for hard-won success in two careers and gives us a ringside seat on the nation's biggest sporting dramas and a fascinating insider's understanding of competitors under pressure. We’d bonded over our respective ambitions in sport, and travelled the world to be together whenever the professional tennis and golf schedules allowed. He’d asked them for my number — and now he wanted to know if I’d like to go to the Shadows concert with him.

This book presents to the reader all that is necessary and interesting about the theories and concepts that underpin humans caring for other humans. The clearly written, practical approach will enable the practitioner to understand and ultimately provide compassionate care in today’s challenging healthcare arena. The irritation with the press (and Cliff) continually bringing up a 'relationship' which barely existed in any material sense, is the only real intrigue. I am not a big tennis fan and haven’t watched “Question of Sport” for decades but I really enjoyed Sue Barker’s biography.

He christened his new backing singers ‘the Supremes’, as in ‘supremo tennis players’, and said they should have brought their rackets to play air guitar.