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11/24/2025

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Who gets to teach tennis?Flush with cash after selling the Cincinnati Open to billionaire (and WTA dad) Ben Navarro for ...
11/24/2025

Who gets to teach tennis?

Flush with cash after selling the Cincinnati Open to billionaire (and WTA dad) Ben Navarro for a few hundred million dollars, the USTA is turning its attention to the people who make tennis happen for everyone else: Coaches.

USTA Coaching CEO Craig Morris and Managing Director Megan Rose are trying to reframe coaching around parents, after-school caregivers, PE teachers and those new to the sport who need some help. After all, as Rose says, “Not everyone is Richard Williams.”

Community based programs like and say it’s working. At the link in bio, we go 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 th...
11/20/2025

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.

To help you sort through all the noise, we’re bringing back our favorite archetypes. While of course they’re shallow caricatures—they somehow tend to ring true, and the fact is: We all know the following types, and we need to buy them presents.

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A new tennis project in Accra blends cutting-edge architecture with ancient building methods to create a harmonious spac...
11/11/2025

A new tennis project in Accra blends cutting-edge architecture with ancient building methods to create a harmonious space for tennis.

Paid for and run by , the Ghanaian artist whose portraits grace museums worldwide, the .accra attracts some of Accra’s most promising junior players. American-born architect Glenn DeRoche and his namesake designed the compound, which houses changing rooms, an open-air kitchen, and a 230-square meter sustenance garden with medicinal plants and fruit trees.

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What used to be a small garbage dump where gangs sold drugs has become the unlikely home of the Fundación Futuros Para e...
11/08/2025

What used to be a small garbage dump where gangs sold drugs has become the unlikely home of the Fundación Futuros Para el Tenis, on the outskirts of Santiago.

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Playing with someone constantly full of excuses is exhausting. Luckily our resident advice columnist knows what to do: ...
11/04/2025

Playing with someone constantly full of excuses is exhausting. Luckily our resident advice columnist knows what to do: “not so long after implementing my methods, your hitting partner will realize God gives his most minor inconveniences to his weakest soldiers.”

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In 1957, John Gardiner raised the bar at a tennis resort in Carmel. There’s no one left who can reach it. One woman’s an...
10/22/2025

In 1957, John Gardiner raised the bar at a tennis resort in Carmel. There’s no one left who can reach it. One woman’s annual pilgrimage became the stuff of legend after the closure of Carmel’s storied John Gardiner’s Tennis Ranch.

Back on the Ranch, at the link in bio.
Photos courtesy Gardiner family.

As our name implies, we don’t just care about tennis—we’re into all things racquet. Out today, our first-ever print ode ...
10/14/2025

As our name implies, we don’t just care about tennis—we’re into all things racquet. Out today, our first-ever print ode to the exploding world of padel. In it, our favorite places to play and stay around the world, as well as exciting new voices (paging Dr. Martita), an expansive lexicon and a look at burgeoning communities everywhere.

Available this week at the finals here in New York and at select clubs around the world. 🎾

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10/08/2025

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If glare is ruining your game, our resident See You In Court columnist tried all the eyewear so you don’t have to. At t...
09/24/2025

If glare is ruining your game, our resident See You In Court columnist tried all the eyewear so you don’t have to. At the 🔗 in bio, a definitive guide to the best shade available (with some homages to the greatest ever eyewear on court).

“Great athletes usually turn out to be stunningly inarticulate about just those qualities and experiences that constitut...
09/18/2025

“Great athletes usually turn out to be stunningly inarticulate about just those qualities and experiences that constitute their fascination,” David Foster Wallace wrote in 1992 after finding himself disappointed by Tracy Austin’s autobiography. Thirty years later little has changed about the sports memoir genre, writes about Björn Borg’s new book, Heartbeats

has expanded its brand into the world of racquet sports, starting with the Aman Tennis Club — luxury essentials from co...
09/18/2025

has expanded its brand into the world of racquet sports, starting with the Aman Tennis Club — luxury essentials from court to resort.

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