Surface Tension
The Battle for the Soul of Tennis
A Magazine on Tennis, Fashion, and Photography
Game, Set, Kingdom
The tenth 1000 in Riyadh from 2028
Honour to Alvarez! (And Our Apologies to Alcaraz)
Notes on loud, ignorant Davis-patriotism and Sinner's professional logic.
Game, Set, Whitewash: Saudi Arabia’s Gamble on Global Tennis
What Is Being “Washed”? - Sportswashing. The core question lies in what this glossy façade seeks to obscure. Behind the modern stadiums and glamorous events, organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch document a darker reality.
In the Age of (6)Kings, It Takes a Queen
Nadal, for all his intensity, represents an idea almost extinct in modern tennis: not the calm against the storm, but the mind inside it.. Sabalenka is his opposite — raw, loud, visceral — and that’s exactly what gives the gesture weight. It isn’t imitation. It’s recognition. I’m not you, but
THE UNACCOMPANIED EAST
INT. HOTEL ROOM, SHANGHAI - DEEP NIGHT A hotel room identical to a thousand others, but with the floor tilted at an imperceptible angle. A sleepless tennis player looks out the window, but instead of the skyline, he sees yesterday’s center court, floating in miniature, in the void. The clock
Daniil Medvedev: The Long Winter of the Logician
The Russian, one of the most ironic, intelligent and self-aware voices in tennis, found himself caught between generations: too late to challenge the Big Three at their peak, too early to belong fully to the new order led by Alcaraz and Sinner.
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