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It was the fall of 2005. I had not yet begun to lose things, and people, and parts of myself. I still believed in the one true way, as Federer did. Agassi knew better but I hadn’t lived enough to understand what I was watching. I was 29 years and two days old.  

Inside the USTA’s quietly radical plan to rethink coaching

We here at Racquet have amassed a guide to make your holiday gift-giving look effortlessly apropos and thoughtful. If this helps avert "tennis-scented candles" and other misguided purchases, so much the better. Happy Holidays from Racquet to you and yours.

In her postcard from Turin, Italian photographer, writer and architect Martina Rosati outlines how Jannik Sinner's alpine discipline and Lorenzo Musetti's Mediterranean flair and fire are giving the country a spectrum to embrace.

A new tennis project in the city's Osu neighborhood blends cutting-edge architecture with ancient building methods to create a harmonious space for tennis.

Ok, fine, listen, if you twist my arm, here’s an answer: Dane Sweeny—one of those brave souls grinding it out week in week out on the Challenger tour for net negative earnings—gritting out the wildest point you or I will ever see.  

A tennis academy in a rough area of Santiago, Chile, has transformed its kids—along with the man who started it all

On a crisp late-October afternoon, a crew of 40 New Yorkers descended upon Old Greenwich Tennis Academy, a family-run tennis club quietly sitting on one of the best party hacks of all time: rent the whole place, bring your friends, and call it a “tennis party.”

In 1957, John Gardiner raised the bar at a tennis resort in Carmel. There's no one left who can reach it.