Love. Obsession. Tennis.

My novel ‘Advantage Dalca’ about two young Romanian tennis players whose lifelong friendship is destroyed in their quest to be World Number one is available now from Amazon.

With the popularity of men’s tennis increasing due to the phenomenal stars such as Ralph Darendorf and Harbin Palomer, Ned Flash, the head of the International Tennis Media Group is keen to raise the profile of the women’s game too by promoting two young rising stars from Romania, great friends Ana Dalca and Augustine Lupei.Ned Flash enlists British tennis coach Simon Raine to work with Augustine Lupei and help her in her quest to become world number one.However, Simon soon becomes enchanted by the tennis played by Ana Dalca and believes she is the one with the true potential to become the greatest of all time.Simon’s journey takes him across the world and creates a rift between the two Romanians and also plays havoc with his relationship with his partner, Daisy Lake, lands him in hot water with one of his closest friends and makes a sworn enemy of Augustine’s brother, Daniel.As Simon gets sucked deeper into the Romanian’s world and finds himself becoming closer to Ana Dalca more than he would care to admit.