The WTA pioneered equal pay in professional sports. Now, as the organization faces mounting financial pressure, it must decide how to do it without breaking the bank.

Ahead of the 2027 season, Racquet caught up with the WTA pro about her upbringing in Georgia, a state rich in tennis tradition, and how her expanding footprint, Mejuri partnership and outlook on next year. 

Congress wants to cap international athletes at 20 percent of every college roster. In Division I tennis, nine in ten teams would be in violation, and homegrown options don’t measure up.

On vacation in Kosovo, a tennis detour gave Hanlon Walsh a front-row seat to one family's decades-long effort to forge a national tennis identity.

The most successful (and idiosyncratic) Greek tennis player, fresh off an electrifying run at the US Open, visits New York's Greek enclave. Hijinks ensue.

Stretch fabric did more than make tennis clothes tighter. It changed how freely women could move, how secure they could feel, and how little they had to think about what they were wearing.

Six weeks after the biggest win of her career, a freak injury at Roland Garros brought everything to a stop. At home in D.C., she is doing the quiet work of coming back.

In our Issue No. 29 cover story, award-winning documentarian Zach Heinzerling reflects on capturing the real Rafael Nadal during the making of Emmy-nominated RAFA.