Wendy Laird
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How to Start Planning for Your Trip to the Australian Open
We at Racquet take our curatorial role to bring the best stories, ideas and experiences your way with extreme dedication. It's in this spirit, then, that we offer scenes and how-tos for making your visit to The Happy Slam, a, well, happy one. We sent our features editor Wendy Laird to Melbourne, where she met up with Australian photographer Chris Caporaso to capture scenes in and around the grounds. If this doesn't get you excited to visit the fourth Slam during Aussie Summer, we don't know what will.
Tennis in Times of Upheaval
The best part about having. A sport is that it can be pastime and workout and outlet. A reason to travel and a welcome distraction at home.
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.
Foo’s Ball
Is one of SoCal’s many attempts to gamify a thing that’s already a game a gateway to tennis paradise?
Tennis Stripped Bare
During Our Plague Year, the Sport Has Been Released From the Bonds of Performance
