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Spoils Rotten (and Good)
The Best and Worst Trophies on Tour
Grass at Last!
Racquet welcomes a shift to the green stuff, and chats with Matteo Berrettini on injuries, BOSS, and the genetic lottery.
Red Shift: Training on the Terre Battue in LA
A garden in the San Fernando Valley is ground-zero for West Coasters eager to unlock the secret lessons only the slidey stuff can teach.
ACE: Form and Function of Tennis Wear
In her new book, ACE: the times & style of tennis, creative director Sunita Kumar Nair delves into the history of tennis clothing, and what makes the court a de facto runway.
What’s Next for Sloane Stephens is What’s Next for Tennis
Between Patrick Mouratoglou’s Ultimate Tennis Showdown, India’s Tennis Premier League, and INTENNSE, innovators are looking for ways to shorten matches, add pizzazz, and balance inequities in an attempt to draw, and keep, a younger crowd.
Pàdel Shots: a Lexicon
A by-no-means-exhaustive list of the names and neologisms that define a new(ish) sport
The Morte d’Arthur Was Greatly Exaggerated
Frenchman Arthur Fils—the charisma bomb—is back and looking better than ever.
Dispatches from the Desert
Our Managing Editor Wendy Laird is on the grounds and has Dispatches from the Desert coming in on a regular basis: Today the BNP Paribas Open is over. Long live the BNP Paribas Open.
Patrick Mouratoglou is Laughing all the Way to the Bank
Our intrepid correspondent spends a weekend in Texas Hill Country with tennis' most controversial coach—and budding empire builder, with 18 global locations (and counting) of his namesake academy ready to take over the world. They talk life, changing the rules on coaching and (of course) Serena Williams.
Tennis Gets its Heated Rivalry Moment
The Open Era, an upcoming novel by debut author Edward Schmit, follows Austin Hardy, an openly gay tennis player, as he navigates two weeks playing in the US Open. We sat down with Schmit to talk tennis, books, and… the gay sports genre that is suddenly everywhere.
Jelena Ostapenko is at it Again
Hawkeye might be forever stacked against her, but dammit, Ostapenko is going to wrest back the favor of the gods one waistless eponymous tennis dress at a time, for offers in good faith from Believers in her DMs.
Jack Sock Veers Left
Last week, Racquet spoke with everyone’s favorite doubles partner, Jack Sock—he of the ferocious forehand and the Grand Slam doubles titles—about his recent shift to—shudder— pickle ball. A new documentary, Chasing Courts: The Jack Sock Story, follows Sock’s unlikely trajectory.
