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
Jack Sock Veers Left
Last week, Racquet spoke with everyone’s favorite doubles partner, Jack Sock—he of the ferocious lefty forehand and the Grand Slam doubles titles—about his recent shift to—shudder— pickle ball. A new documentary, Chasing Courts: The Jack Sock Story, follows Sock’s unlikely trajectory.
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.
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.
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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
The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Seen on a Tennis Court, by Wright Thompson
It was the fall of 2005. I had not yet begun to lose things, and people, and parts of myself. I still believed in the one true way, as Federer did. Agassi knew better but I hadn’t lived enough to understand what I was watching. I was 29 years and two days old.
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.
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