Mark Hodgkinson

Oct 3, 2024 | news.williamhill.com | Harry Edward |Mark Hodgkinson |Kelly Holmes |David Horspool

The most prestigious literary prize in the sporting world, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, has announced its longlist for this year’s competition. Since 1989, we’ve seen the likes of Duncan Hamilton, Michael Holding and Jeremy Wilson walk away with the top prize, while last year saw Lauren Fleshman win with her book ‘Good for a Girl’.

Aug 7, 2024 | optionstheedge.com | Tom Bower |Mark Hodgkinson |DAVID SQUIRES |Abigail Pesta

What to read during the Olympics. 7 August 2024 - 11:02am These picks offer something for every sport junkie These titles on athletes and tournaments take readers from court to track and further afield, delivering pulsating action.

Aug 5, 2024 | insidestory.org.au | Mark Hodgkinson |Jock Given

The Big Four of men’s tennis are not leaving quickly or quietly. Amazon Prime released a documentary about the Twelve Final Days of Roger Federer’s career in June. A new book about Novak Djokovic was published in early July. Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Djokovic all showed up in Paris to play in the Olympic Games a few weeks later. Paris was definitely the end for the Scot, who played his “home” championships at Wimbledon for the last time in June.

Aug 4, 2024 | inkl.com | Mark Hodgkinson

Nadal is not so sure. He entered the Olympics ranked 161 in the world after playing little tennis in the last year and losing in the first round of the French Open in May for the first time in his career. An Olympics in Paris offered a chance to return to the clay court at Roland Garros where he has made fourteen French Open finals, winning them all without ever being taken beyond four sets. Djokovic is in better shape.

Jul 11, 2024 | standard.co.uk | Mark Hodgkinson

Novak Djokovic is more loved than you might imagine. His most committed supporters, the Nole Fam, adore him with an intensity the Fed-Heads couldn’t ever match for their guy. It’s just that when you put the greatest player of all time on the grandest, most elegant stage in tennis – Centre Court at Wimbledon, where he will be on Friday for his semi-final against Lorenzo Musetti – it can sometimes sound and feel as though he is unloved.