Delaney Ricciardo is fierce and her determined to win at any cost has not made her well liked. But by the time she retires from tennis she is a twenty four grand slam winner and regarded as the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen.
But si...
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Three hours later and me and Liam were pulling up to the press conference, somehow Tasha had got me to agree to.
They wanted to do one a month from the French open to help build excitement around it. I wasn't going to do it until Tasha admitted that it was supposed to be 3 women and 3 men but once the organisation told the women that I was their first choice to get for the press conference they changed their mind and said they didn't want to do it.
It was hilarious. These women were running away and trying to throw their toys out of their prams so the organisation would change their minds and ask them to come back. But they failed to do that, meaning it was going to be me on the stage with 6 other male tennis players.
Getting out of the car I immediately spotted the paparazzi at the end of the path, right by the door. The second they spotted me they began shouting and yelling towards me, asking me to stop and smile.
Ignoring them, I kept walking, past them and through the doors of the building.
We were greeted by a women, she was smiling. And as Liam came to a stop beside me I realised why her smile was so large.
"Mr Black, an hour to have you here" she said, batting her lashes as she did
"Pleasure as always ma'am " he nodded at her
"Please, call me Kim" she said, continuing to bat her lashes and letting out a slow laugh
I couldn't help myself as I let out a scoff. I attempted to cover it up with a cough.
I brought my bag up, and started routing in it for something, attempting to busy myself.
"Well Kim, could you tell your bosses me and Delaney are here" he said, bringing a hand up to rest on my back
"At once" she smiled before her eyes glanced over at me, I saw them harder slightly as her gaze then dropped to where Liam's hand was on my back before she turned and walked off.
The second she turned her back I grabbed Liam's hand and pulled it down and shoved it back to his side.
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"Could I have two banana and strawberry smoothies please" I whispered to the girl I had called over, she quickly nodded in response before running off the stage.
The room was actually pretty impressive. It was a large room with big ceilings, the wall to my left was all windows looking out on the streets of Paris. We were sitting at a long table at the front of the room, that was raised slightly. The rest of the room was packed with chairs and at the back cameras as reporters crammed into the room.
