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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.

Nihi Sumba may be the most written-about resort on earth that not enough people have seen with their own eyes.

Czech Jakub Mensik is making deep runs at majors and winning the tunnel-walk hands-down

The TVLG ART x TENNIS club is Reilly Opelka writ large(r).

The supercool city of Montréal is EVEN COOLER now: tennis murals adorn citywide backboards at the home of the Canadian Open Championships.

The gold leaf-adorned artwork by CDMX artist Euri Lorenzo is magnificent, and makes us want to head South, pick up a poster, and frame it on the wall of our new home on the Sea of Cortez. 

Tennis has a complicated relationship with the climate, but new initiatives—including a switch to good ole Har-Tru—show it can be part of the solution.

When you bring your racquet to Los Cabos, you discover a travel experience where tennis meets the sea, the desert and a vibrant Baja culture—a perfect blend that’s made the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo an unmissable stop on the ATP Tour for ten years running.

The Serena Williams Fit-Dex is hands-down the best use of the internet.

The conversation around mental health has helped transform the sport, but as openness becomes the norm, another question is beginning to surface: Can vulnerability remain meaningful if athletes no longer feel free to withhold it?

In this letter of recommendation, our correspondent reports from the All England's Aorangi Park, where the press can sit and absorb a sense of wonder and astonishment and porous, melancholy outsiderness. Where we are reminded, after all, that we are mere witnesses to these shapes and strokes of beauty, and not their arbiters.

Wimbledon Court is the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s effort to give New Yorkers the chance to play on a rare surface in the city’s backyard. It’s also part of a larger effort to ensure the tournament delivers on its promise of “the pinnacle of sport” and broadens the tennis fanbase to the next generation.