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Racquet's 2025 Holiday Gift Guide

We here at Racquet have amassed a guide to make your holiday gift-giving look effortlessly apropos and thoughtful. If this helps avert "tennis-scented candles" and other misguided purchases, so much the better.

To help you sort through all the noise, we're bringing back our favorite archetypes. While of course they're shallow caricatures—they somehow tend to ring true, and the fact is: We all know the following types, and we need to buy them presents.

Featured Articles

Who Gets to Teach Tennis?

Inside the USTA’s quietly radical plan to rethink coaching

A Rammed-Earth Sanctuary in Accra

A new tennis project in the city's Osu neighborhood blends cutting-edge architecture with ancient building methods to create a harmonious space for tennis.

Lo Espejo Escape

A tennis academy in a rough area of Santiago, Chile, has transformed its kids—along with the man who started it all

How Do I Deal with an Opponent Full of Excuses?

One day, not so long after implementing my methods, your hitting partner will realize God gives his most minor inconveniences to his weakest soldiers.

Must Reads

The New Silhouette of Italian Men’s Tennis

In her postcard from Turin, Italian photographer, writer and architect Martina Rosati outlines how Jannik Sinner's alpine discipline and Lorenzo Musetti's Mediterranean flair and fire are giving the country a spectrum to embrace.

The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Seen on a Tennis Court, by Tim Wojcik

Ok, fine, listen, if you twist my arm, here’s an answer: Dane Sweeny—one of those brave souls grinding it out week in week out on the Challenger tour for net negative earnings—gritting out the wildest point you or I will ever see.  

Honor Titus x Antwaun Sargent

Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles-based artist Honor Titus recently sat down with Gagosian Gallery curator Antwaun Sargent to talk about his newest works, including "Louis Malle Practice" (2025), a large-scale reproduction of which is on view on the facade Queens Museum.