This week we bring you the first few days of The Championships through the lens of our own Tom Parker.















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It’s difficult to emphasize enough how much Los Angeles had positively awakened to tennis in the last few years. Now you see people playing in their front yards, on uneven hilly driveways in Eagle Rock. Using their clanging garage doors as backboards. Annoying the neighbors; not caring. This is how tennis in LA will persist.
Rennae talks to the woman behind everyone's favorite Grand Slam success story about learning to love the process in tennis, her decades-long journey on the tour and how a little therapy and playing brave pays off.
We give deserved standing ovations to the players who've gotten their inner games of tennis together—looking at you Mirra Andreeva, Andrey Rublev and of course, Madison Keys! Also a slightly inappropriate discussion of the hottest tennis match ever, a brief detour through South America, and most importantly, we'll see you in Indian Wells!
A week after claiming his first title at the Argentina Open, hometown hero João Fonseca returns to Brazil to massive crowds.
The beginning of the year is, for the organized and the ambitious, the time to plan travel for the year ahead. We here at Racquet can juuust see the toes of our shoes on the sidewalk in front of us, but for those of you who can plan an entire year in advance—good for you!—we have some places to consider. You’ll of course be packing your racquet.