It’s damned hot in London right now, at the beginning of Wimbledon 2025. After a spectator fainted from the heat during the five-set Alcaraz-Fognini match, we thought this prescient article from Issue 21 was in order. We at Racquet are firmly in camp shade.
“Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass.” —Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, but also anyone with shady seats as they walk past people in umbrella hats.
Hell is the middle of a row on the hot side
of an unsheltered tennis stadium.