Sue Barker

• 19 April 1956
• She grew up in Devon and was educated at a school run by nuns
• British television presenter and former professional tennis player
• She has won 15 Women’s Tennis Association titles in her career
• She retired from professional tennis in 1984.
• She started working for the BBC as a tennis presenter in 1993
• She is well-known for presenting A Question of Sport (for 24 years)
• She has also hosted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards
• She was romantically linked to Cliff Richard in the 1980s.
• She was awarded the MBE for her services to sports broadcasting.
• She’s the last British woman to win the French Open
• She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.
• In 2022 she wrote her autobiography Calling the Shots

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