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Court Cuts
Hidden away at the back of the US Open’s presidential suite, the tournament’s unsung hero remains hard at work, scissors in hand. For 15 years, hairstylist Julien Farel has hosted a pop-up salon for all players participating in the Open. Tresses of top-seeded players fall to the ground as Farel carefully styles each coif.
Tennis Heaven Among the Dunes
I’ve been to Wisconsin exactly two times. The first visit was during graduate school, when a fellow journalism student who, like me, was missing skiing something fierce, planned a trip for the two of us up to Wisconsin. There’s good skiing up there, we were told by Chicagoans who didn’t know any better. So we of the Cascades and the Rockies drove two hours north from Evanston, IL to ski a “mountain” with a 200-foot elevation.
Clervie Ngounoue Recalibrates
Watching Clervie Ngounoue play tennis, it’s easy to experience a kind of cognitive dissonance. The teen’s demeanor is calm and introspective. Her movement is smooth and deliberate. But when she’s ready to strike, what comes off her racquet is nothing but seismic.
郑钦文的天选决定论
上周六，继李娜在墨尔本捧起澳网冠军奖杯十年之后，郑钦文成为历史上 第二位进入大满贯单打决赛的中国网球选手。虽然郑钦文在决赛中不敌实力强 劲的阿依娜·萨巴伦卡（Aryna Sabalenka），但一年多前我与她交谈时，我认为 郑钦文就是天选之女，甚至她的到来都是命中注定的。当然，她不会这么认为。
A European Tennis Experience
In this feature from our latest Issue No. 24, Paramore's Zac Farro gives us a preview of his upcoming zine, Souvenir: A European Summer.
Summer Must Have List
On this, the first day of Summer, we’re proud to present our official Must Have list for 2024. We used to call this our annual Summer Gear Guide, but tennis these days requires so much more than gear, it requires that one adopt the tennis lifestyle. And if there’s one thing we at Racquet are going to do, it’s scour the Earth for the most important and stylish accessories, experiences and yes, gear, to empower yours.
Find me at the Club
Thanks to a resurgence in tennis and a return to communal spaces, the tennis club—where the everyday player is the protagonist of their own Slam—is back in business.
