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A postcard from our favorite indie zine Portland Tennis Courterly's Wet Issue release party, where each microclimate seemed completely and utterly devoted to tennis, from the bagels toasting in the kitchen to a 1997 Riesling with notes of... tennis balls.

In the spirit of transgressions, trolls, tirades, and another godforsaken years-end list, our resident advice columnist brings you the top five rage bait moments of 2025.

Last week, Racquet spoke with everyone’s favorite doubles partner, Jack Sock—he of the ferocious forehand and the Grand Slam doubles titles—about his recent shift to—shudder— pickle ball. A new documentary, Chasing Courts: The Jack Sock Story, follows Sock’s unlikely trajectory. 

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