Racquet, Issue 29

Racquet is a new quarterly magazine that celebrates the art, ideas, style and culture that surround tennis. We fondly remember the swashbuckling sport of the tennis boom of the 1970s and ’80s, and our goal is to help restore some of that swagger to today’s game. We’ll work with some of the best writers – those experienced in the tennis conversation, and those who’ve never covered the sport – as well as artists and photographers to explore the modern tennis landscape, bringing you something beautiful and meaningful four times a year.

In this issue:
We first contemplated calling this the interview issue, because it finds the phenomenal independent journalists, photographers and designers that comprise Racquet in dialogue with characters across disciplines with tennis as a throughline – Victoria Mboko, Jakub Mensik, Hailey Baptiste, Gabriel Diallo, Leylah Fernandez and many more. But that doesn’t quite capture what director Zach Heinzerling is up to with RAFA, his four-part documentary series that just got a Sports Emmy® nod, as you’ll learn from his fascinating first-person journey behind the scenes with Mallorca’s greatest to ever do it. Spanish artist Goldn Arts paid homage to the him (and to former Interview Magazine illustrator Richard Bernstein) with our cover.