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Six weeks after the biggest win of her career, a freak injury at Roland Garros brought everything to a stop. At home in D.C., she is doing the quiet work of coming back.

In our Issue No. 29 cover story, award-winning documentarian Zach Heinzerling reflects on capturing the real Rafael Nadal during the making of Emmy-nominated RAFA.

Czech Jakub Mensik is making deep runs at majors and winning the tunnel-walk hands-down

The TVLG ART x TENNIS club is Reilly Opelka writ large(r).

The Best and Worst Trophies on Tour

“To create one’s own world takes courage.” —Georgia O’Keefe

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.  

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.  

We ask the eminent and the imminent for their takes on the greatest things they’ve ever seen on a court, and damned if they don’t deliver—each and every one. The first in what will likely become a very long, storied series is by broadcaster, former pro and absolute national treasure Mary Carillo. Hers might just be the greatest of the Greatest.

Tennis Changed One Photographer's Relationship with His Hometown

A vacation turned one aspiring player into a tournament volunteer in the Philippines.

上周六，继李娜在墨尔本捧起澳网冠军奖杯十年之后，郑钦文成为历史上 第二位进入大满贯单打决赛的中国网球选手。虽然郑钦文在决赛中不敌实力强 劲的阿依娜·萨巴伦卡（Aryna Sabalenka），但一年多前我与她交谈时，我认为 郑钦文就是天选之女，甚至她的到来都是命中注定的。当然，她不会这么认为。