The story of modern tennis shines with immense fortune and glamour --- as well as unrelenting high stakes --- like the game has never seen before. Players excel and implode under excruciating pressure, alone on the court for the world to see. With legends like Rafa, Roger and Serena retired and Novak trying to figure out when to go, a new generation of electric stars has burst onto the scene and begun their quest for the secret codes that will allow them to thrive at the top of a brutal game. In THE CRUELEST GAME, Matthew Futterman sits us down with the stars whose relentless drive leads them to battle against a game of millimeters, and explains the off-court tensions that can both lift and destroy them.