I never meant to stay with Alu Power this long. It started, like it does for most of us, with a curiosity. Someone on the next court was cracking serves with a different sound — not louder exactly, just tighter,…
There’s a particular crack in the summer air of London—sharp, anticipatory, electric—and in 2025, it carries Jack Draper’s energy. At 23, the lanky left-hander from Epsom has quietly climbed to world No. 4, the highest ranking ever for a British man…
There’s a strange kind of gravity in being ranked world No. 3 without a Grand Slam to your name. It suspends you in a limbo between reverence and unfinished business — not quite legend, but no longer chasing the pack. Alexander…
Daniil Medvedev arrived in 2025 like a chess grandmaster, opening the season not with flair but with quiet confidence—until the position on the board began slipping. Mid-June finds him ranked 11, his record a modest 16–9, without a title, without…
On a humid Saturday in late June, somewhere between the cracked asphalt and graffiti-scrawled walls of a public court in East Brooklyn, an eleven-year-old boy adjusted his elbow sleeve, dribbled a borrowed Yonex racket, and served out wide. His form…
For a country of just over 10 million people, the Czech Republic has an uncanny ability to produce world-class tennis players. From the days of Martina Navrátilová and Ivan Lendl to the modern successes of Petra Kvitová and Tomáš Berdych,…
João Fonseca’s rise in tennis has reignited a passion in Brazil for a sport that has, at times, felt like it was waiting for its next savior. Since the days of Gustavo Kuerten, affectionately known as “Guga,” Brazilian tennis fans…
Jack Draper’s run at the Australian Open felt like the opening chapter of a story tennis fans have been waiting to read. For years, Draper has been discussed in the same breath as Britain’s brightest hopes, a rising star with…
In the late 1980s, Andre Agassi burst onto the tennis scene with an energy that was at once magnetic and polarizing. His look—a wild mane of bleached hair, neon clothing, and denim shorts—was a rebellion against the tennis establishment. He…
In 2017, Roger Federer did something few had attempted before: he created a tournament. But this wasn’t just any event—it was the Laver Cup, a tournament designed to honor tennis legend Rod Laver and, in many ways, to bring something…
