Offers to write a book have long been made to Mary Pierce. There is quite a story to tell.
There is the professional journey: emerging on the WTA Tour aged 14, switching national allegiance to France because of a lack of support from the United States, winning a couple of Grand Slams under le Tricolore, retiring aged 31 after a distressing on-court collapse with a ruptured knee ligament.
There is the personal journey: entrenched in an "abusive" relationship with her father and coach Jim, ostracising him in her late teens and a later reconciliation, becoming a born-again Christian at the height of her playing career, demanding inner fulfilment ever since.