christos_liaskos
Professional
Just seen he's announced this on his facebook page that he is releasing his autobiography in August, so obviously too early for people to write reviews yet but just thought I'd see what people thought of this?
I'm personally a big fan of tennis player autobiographies and I'd love to know a bit more about Rafa as he is already one of the all time greats. I can't help but feeling it's just a bit too early for him to release a book right now though as he's only half way through his career (let's not get into a debate about the longevity of his career, this isn't a thread about debating that subject). He has achieved so much though that his only real big goal left would be to maybe track down and surpass Roger's career slam tally, so if he ever does achieve this he won't be able to describe his emotions in this book.
I've mentioned in other threads too about how in different ways, Roger and Rafa, have taken physical conditioning in tennis to levels that noone else seems capable of reaching, Roger has barely suffered an injury in his career and you rarely see either of them tire whilst on court. I was hoping that when the day came that these two would write their autobiographies that maybe they would reveal some of their training secrets (unlike some like Murray who at times has documented every part of his training regimes). But since Rafa still has years to play he is unlikely to reveal any of his secrets in this book.
Another little niggle I have about this book is, after reading a little preview on amazon, it's just hard to get my head around the language being used (English version) because we all know Rafa himself is not capable of using the English language in this way. I know all these tennis player autobiogs are written by a ghost writer, but atleast you can 'hear' the player's voice in your head as if they are saying the words themselves (hehe I'm not going crazy) but the language being used in the outtake on amazon, I cant even imagine Rafa being able to read it. I know I'm just being a bit picky, because at the end of the day if I want to read his autobiography in English then that's just something I'll have to put up with. Otherwise I should learn Spanish myself and read the original version.
I'm personally a big fan of tennis player autobiographies and I'd love to know a bit more about Rafa as he is already one of the all time greats. I can't help but feeling it's just a bit too early for him to release a book right now though as he's only half way through his career (let's not get into a debate about the longevity of his career, this isn't a thread about debating that subject). He has achieved so much though that his only real big goal left would be to maybe track down and surpass Roger's career slam tally, so if he ever does achieve this he won't be able to describe his emotions in this book.
I've mentioned in other threads too about how in different ways, Roger and Rafa, have taken physical conditioning in tennis to levels that noone else seems capable of reaching, Roger has barely suffered an injury in his career and you rarely see either of them tire whilst on court. I was hoping that when the day came that these two would write their autobiographies that maybe they would reveal some of their training secrets (unlike some like Murray who at times has documented every part of his training regimes). But since Rafa still has years to play he is unlikely to reveal any of his secrets in this book.
Another little niggle I have about this book is, after reading a little preview on amazon, it's just hard to get my head around the language being used (English version) because we all know Rafa himself is not capable of using the English language in this way. I know all these tennis player autobiogs are written by a ghost writer, but atleast you can 'hear' the player's voice in your head as if they are saying the words themselves (hehe I'm not going crazy) but the language being used in the outtake on amazon, I cant even imagine Rafa being able to read it. I know I'm just being a bit picky, because at the end of the day if I want to read his autobiography in English then that's just something I'll have to put up with. Otherwise I should learn Spanish myself and read the original version.
