• Patrick McEnroe announces all the Grand Slams broadcast by CBS and ESPN, and Peter Bodo is a regular columnist at Tennis magazine.
• All the major tournaments are announced by McEnroe, including the Davis Cup, Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, the Tennis Masters Cup, and the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships. These tournaments draw over 300,000 attendees, and the book will be promoted at all of them.
• Tennis continues to gain fans from the growth of the Nadal/Federer rivalry and thrilling Grand Slam finals year after year.

In The Baseline Diaries, Patrick McEnroe—player, commentator, and U.S. Davis Cup team captain—takes fans behind the curtains of the game with unflinching honesty, humor, and a keen eye for detail.  He writes about the game itself: about why the sport has taken off globally, what makes it a great spectacle, how and why it has changed since he first swung a racket, and of course, the men, women, and events that have driven the explosion right up to the present day and its epic Federer versus Nadal rivalry.

McEnroe shares colorful and entertaining anecdotes and stories about the biggest names in the game in the past three decades—luminaries like Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Venus and Serena Williams, and even his own brother, John. Curious to know which of the four Grand Slams is the toughest tournament to win? Why Roger Federer, presumably the greatest player of all time, can’t beat Rafael Nadal? Why certain tennis prodigies burned out early? The real role of coaches like Nick Bollettieri? McEnroe answers all those questions, and many more.

The Baseline Diaries is the kind of tennis book that has never been written before and one that only Patrick McEnroe could write.