You walk around carrying this invisible weight — this pressure on your whole spirit—because the worlds you’re trying to fit into are rejecting you in so many ways. And you think it’s your fault.

A 2018 profile of the tennis star.

On the joy of watching Roger play live at Wimbledon.

A year after her ‘Hell,’ Olga Sharypova is ready to speak out.

How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.

The 20-year-old is poised to burst into the top tier of women’s tennis. Can she also burst Japan’s expectations of what it means to be Japanese?

Petra Kvitova’s long road back.

Five stories about Nick Kyrgios, tennis’ misunderstood genius.

How a 20-year-old from the land of fake news tricked Martina Navratilova, Serena Williams, and the BBC.

On his journey from phenom to champion to wannabe rock star to Emmy-winning commentator, John McEnroe hasn’t changed much.

How the best tennis player of all time fell in love with the guy who founded Reddit.

A profile of Jimmy Connors on the eve of the 1978 U.S. Open. His legendary confidence, honed by his mother since childhood, was in free-fall. (He would go on to win the final in straight sets.)

The liberation of the Williams sisters.

“Richard Williams raised her to go to war with the world. Post-tennis, she plans to live in it.”

The best women’s tennis player of all-time opens up.

A profile of Novak Djokovic.

On September 20, 1973, 50 million Americans watched Bobby Riggs lose to Billie Jean King in a tennis match dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes.” This spring, a man named Hal Shaw came forward with a secret he’d held for 40 years: Riggs, in debt to the mafia, had lost on purpose.

When the greatest players in the world go head-to-head, things can get downright angsty.

A footnoted inquiry into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.