The Racquet Podcast: Uzo Aduba

When you bring your racquet to Los Cabos, you discover a travel experience where tennis meets the sea, the desert and a vibrant Baja culture—a perfect blend that’s made the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo an unmissable stop on the ATP Tour for ten years running.

The Serena Williams Fit-Dex is hands-down the best use of the internet.

The conversation around mental health has helped transform the sport, but as openness becomes the norm, another question is beginning to surface: Can vulnerability remain meaningful if athletes no longer feel free to withhold it?

In this letter of recommendation, our correspondent reports from the All England's Aorangi Park, where the press can sit and absorb a sense of wonder and astonishment and porous, melancholy outsiderness. Where we are reminded, after all, that we are mere witnesses to these shapes and strokes of beauty, and not their arbiters.

Wimbledon Court is the All England Lawn Tennis Club’s effort to give New Yorkers the chance to play on a rare surface in the city’s backyard. It’s also part of a larger effort to ensure the tournament delivers on its promise of “the pinnacle of sport” and broadens the tennis fanbase to the next generation.

The racquet-sports draw to this Balearic gem is no longer for rabid junior prospects only—now it’s the grown ups with a taste for design hotels, regional hospitality and a seamless itinerary of sport and wellness who are recalibrating the island’s racquet-sport vibe.