Calling the Shots: My Autobiography

About Sue Barker

Sue Barker CBE is an award-winning broadcaster and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career she won fifteen WTA singles titles including a Grand Slam - the French Open in 1976 aged 20. At her career height she was Britain's No 1 player with a world ranking of No 3. As a broadcaster in 2001 she became the first woman to win the Royal Television Society's best sports presenter award. She led the BBC's reporting on the Olympics for over a decade including London 2012. She anchored SPOTY for 19 years was quizmaster on A Question of Sport for 24 years and fronted coverage of Wimbledon for three decades.In 2020 she won The Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award.Wimbledon: A personal history is her second Sunday Times bestselling book following her autobiography Calling the Shots published in 2022. Sue lives in the Cotswolds with her husband Lance.