A few days ago, Bastian Schweinsteiger and his wife Ana Ivanovic asked to go to Berlin. The occasion was the presentation of the book "One of You", a novel based on the life of Schweinsteiger. The reviews were subdued at best, with some reading of a "really bad" book. Which isn't Bastian Schweinsteiger's fault: the 2014 soccer world champion didn't put the story down on paper himself. That was the responsibility of the Swiss novelist Martin Suter.

Marc Girardelli, five-time overall World Cup winner in alpine skiing, has taken a similar approach. Together with Michaela Grünig, like Suter Swiss, there is already a whole crime series: from "Departure to Death" to "Murder in the Snow". Similarities with living persons are not excluded in these books either.

Andrea Petkovic's literary debut was even closer to the truth. "Between Fame and Honor Lies the Night", published in autumn 2020, clarifies, among others, the question of how to cultivate friendships in a business such as professional tennis.

Agassi sets the benchmark

For the sake of completeness, it should be noted that when it comes to books on athletes, any comparison with "Open", the biography of Andre Agassi by JR Moehringer, is out of the question. Few athletes have such an interesting story to tell as Agassi, and even fewer have found a more gifted author than Moehringer to memorize it.

So the bar is more (Petkovic) or less (Schweinsteiger) high for Alizé Cornet, who just announced her first novel. "La valse de Jours" will be the name of the work, of which Cornet did not want to reveal too much - except for the date of publication: it should be on May 4th, 2022.

Appropriately, Cornet opened a new sporting chapter at the Australian Open: For the first time in her long career, the 32-year-old reached the quarter-finals. This will have been too late for "La valse des Jours".