Sease, with a little help from Feliciano Lopez, takes over the Italian Riviera.

A vacation turned one aspiring player into a tournament volunteer in the Philippines.

Something to know about me in 2025 is that I’ve become the neighborhood voyeur. Four freshly renovated tennis courts opposite my apartment beckon me daily; a hooked index finger tempting me with good, honest time. An hour’s all I need to thrash about, try and prove something inconsequential to myself, defog the mirrors of my mind and leave a better woman. Only instead of playing, I watch. 

Petko joins Rennae on the pod to recap an eventful Sunshine Double, where Aryna Sabalenka and the women are more than making up for the existential dilemma facing men's tennis as the stars continue to fade and the new faces falter. Plus: A daring new t-shirt design inspired by the legend herself, Serena.

In art and tennis, rivalries can be a useful outlet for inner turmoil.

In his Essay on David Foster Wallace, John Jeremiah Sullivan flirts with a distortion of category

Taffy Brodesser-Akner had resisted tennis her whole life and had finally found a way into it, found a way to be her own scrappy self among its inherent elitism

The ladies playing at the highest levels of the “vintage” circuit are not to be trifled with.