Sydney Gawlik is a multi-faceted creative who has traveled the world twice over, the first shooting music festivals and the second as partner (and as of the time of this writing, fiancé) of American ATP doubles player Evan King. Her fresh and optimistic style of photography earlier this year prompted us to ask her to shoot our Sergio Tacchini campaign in LA, and we were lucky enough to catch up with her on a weekend where she was in Paris cheering as King made the semifinals of Roland Garros doubles and the finals of mixed doubles with American Taylor Townsend. From small town Texas to her observations about tennis at the highest (and often least glamourous) echelons of the game, she told us about her evolution as a creative and how working with Racquet enabled her to create "the best of both worlds."
You grew up in New Braunfels, Texas—famously the home of John Newcombe's tennis ranch—Newks as we call it in the biz. But you didn't play tennis as a kid.