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On our cover is a new painting by Honor Titus, accompanied by a profile from the vital and current cultural voice of Durga Chew-Bose. Racquet Hall of Famer Benoit Paire makes the case for player as entertainer, Brittani Sonnenberg is against mindfulness, and Albert Costa of the Spanish sports management company Kosmos, calls for unity. Gerry Marzorati has stern words for a tour determined to do business in an anti-democracy powerhouse, and to top it all off, we present an excerpt from Steven Blush’s new WTT nostalgia-fest, Bustin’ Balls.

The best writing from the first three years of Racquet magazine.

When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize personas, such as Borg, Evert, McEnroe, Navratilova, Gerulaitis, Austin, King, and Connors. The game was played in every park, and tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as for a match. With success, however, came polish, and tennis–if not the game itself, then how it came to be represented in the culture–got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite.

The photography issue features work by longtime collaborators, as well as some new ones. In it, Fashion and Style Director Radka Leitmeritz goes to Vegas to capture desert style and links up with tennis guru Gil Reyes. And we highlight Gorilla vs. Bear’s David Bartholow, who has been documenting the tour in Polaroid. We’re also pleased to present Stefanos Tsitsipas’ first published collection of photography, and Joel Drucker and Louisa Thomas commemorate their favorite tennis photographs, all behind a striking cover of Daniil Medvedev by Sam Hellmann.

The Winter 2019/2020 issue of Racquet magazine.

Cultural attaché Andrea Petkovic profiles the ever-stylish Barbora Strycova, Ben Rothenberg gives us part two of the cautionary tale of the ‘next Anna Kournikova,’ as well as a wild and wooly look at the the “Soviets” of World Team Tennis. Caira Conner re-learns to play after an illness,and Joel Drucker goes all the way back to the swinging ’60s when advertising warmed to tennis. Art by Louise Bonnet, and a classic cover by Jonas Wood.

The Autumn 2019 issue of Racquet magazine.

Ben Rothenberg gives us the cautionary tale of the ‘next Anna Kournikova,’ Rowan Ricardo Phillips highlights Monica Seles’ game-changing win over Jennifer Capriati, Amelia Urry takes us to the border and Rick Marin remembers Vitas Gerulaitis. All behind the cover of an iconic Andy Warhol image.