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Dieciottantanove is the work of Italian artist and architect Paola Edvige Fiori. An Italian native now working and living near Dubrovnik, Croatia, she talked to Racquet about how she combines her lifelong love of tennis, the Mediterranean Sea and geometrical shapes in her evolving art practice.

Our correspondent, herself a former D1 college player, says that even though the country is better known as a ski destination, the Erste Bank Open showed that tennis is alive and well in Austria.

Out in November is a stunning new coffee table book from Phaidon and the men’s tour. ATP No. 1 Club: Icons of Men’s Tennis conceived as a tribute to the legendary players who have achieved the world No. 1 ranking.

The WTA pioneered equal pay in professional sports. Now, as the organization faces mounting financial pressure, it must decide how to do it without breaking the bank.

Congress wants to cap international athletes at 20 percent of every college roster. In Division I tennis, nine in ten teams would be in violation, and homegrown options don’t measure up.

Ahead of the 2027 season, Racquet caught up with the WTA pro about her upbringing in Georgia, a state rich in tennis tradition, and how her expanding footprint, Mejuri partnership and outlook on next year. 

Stretch fabric did more than make tennis clothes tighter. It changed how freely women could move, how secure they could feel, and how little they had to think about what they were wearing.

The thing about an AI ball machine is that it won’t pull punches like an obsequious pro who’s hoping for a bottle of scotch at Christmas; it will learn your weaknesses and it will tell you what they are. But the truth, after it hurts a little, makes you stronger.

On vacation in Kosovo, a tennis detour gave Hanlon Walsh a front-row seat to one family's decades-long effort to forge a national tennis identity.

A newish brand has done the nearly impossible: develop a better tennis shoe.

The most successful (and idiosyncratic) Greek tennis player, fresh off an electrifying run at the US Open, visits New York's Greek enclave. Hijinks ensue.

A new sponsor and her own jewelry brand are helping Donna Vekic exude style on and off the court