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Racquet is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts, in the popular culture, in the skateboarding, hip-hop, and fashion worlds. That side of tennis was--and is--obscured by the tightly controlled messaging of the athletes, the corporate glean of the major tournaments, and the all-white attire of the country-club scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent, diverse, and large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the sport writ large.

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'It's the screaming that cuts you deepest, on your first night in prison. Screaming like someone is hurt. Like they need help. Like someone is dying.'

Wimbledon champion at 17, six-time Grand Slam winner and former world number one - Boris Becker achieved unparalleled success, fame and wealth throughout his tennis career. But in April 2022, everything changed when he was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bankruptcy charges.

Inside offers a raw and unflinching account of Becker's life behind bars, detailing the brutal realities of surviving two of the UK's toughest prisons and the unexpected lessons in resilience that kept him going. Stripped of fame and fortune, Becker faced an entirely new world as inmate A2923EV, where nothing came easy.

More than a story of survival, Inside is about profound transformation. With brutal honesty, Becker reflects on the choices that led him to prison, confronting his mistakes and the price of fame. Through new relationships, hard-learned survival skills and the philosophy of Stoicism, he embarks on the difficult journey of rebuilding his life and shattered reputation.

This is the story of a legend who lost it all - how he survived, started again and found light in life's darkest moments.

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\"Nick Pachelli takes us on court in every corner of the world with a sharp eye for what makes our game and the people who champion it so special.\"

--Billie Jean King, sports icon and equality advocate

Every one of the world's half a million tennis courts is, at its most basic, an identical blank canvas: a 78-foot by 36-foot rectangle, divided by a 3-foot-high net in its center, and marked with eleven straight lines. But add in the elements of surface, space, wind, acoustics, crowds, shadows, humidity, and even air density, and every tennis court is unique--a work of art. And some are masterpieces.

Nick Pachelli curates and profiles 200 of the world's most beautiful, iconic, significant, alluring, and idiosyncratic tennis courts from across the globe, each breathtakingly photographed. He explores the heavyweights, including Wimbledon's All England Lawn Tennis Club, which employs a hawk to keep stray birds from soiling the meticulous lawns. Arthur Ashe, the Grandstand, and Court 17 in Flushing, Queens, where hundreds of thousands of tennis fans gather every summer for the US Open. And there's Court Philippe-Chatrier at Roland-Garros, whose clay seems to take on a different shade--burnt orange, burnt red, burgundy, umber--every time you see it.

We visit far-flung treasures, such as Waiheke Tennis Club in New Zealand, where you'll need to take a plane, then a ferry, then a car or bus, and then walk before arriving there. Indoor marvels, including the Tennis Club de Belgique, which evokes the hushed, reverent feeling of a theater, with skylights illuminating the court and leaving the spectators in the shadows. Hidden jewels, such as the tiny Tennis Club San Stin in Venice, a secret, single outdoor clay court tucked away behind a villa and a 15-foot wall shrouded with vines.

There are urban courts, including the Knickerbocker Field Club, deep in the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Academies, like Rafael Nadal's tennis temple in Mallorca, Spain. And the extreme: a single court completely isolated in the wilds of Scotland; a court in northern Spain revealed when the tide goes out, the sand hardens, and the metallic plates that serve as lines reemerge; and a court in Kenya made out of termite mounds.

Throughout, Pachelli not only conducts a masterful, once-in-a-lifetime tour of the world's best courts, but in his writing does something equally immersive: He captures the real passion--some might say obsession--that tennis inspires. Because it's on the court, no matter how grandiose or mundane, whether in an exotic locale or around the corner, where tennis players truly see themselves. Where we come face-to-face with our temperament, our drive, our frustration, our bliss, our longing.",{"_807":823,"_809":836,"_783":837},{"_807":823,"_809":839,"_783":1288},"Artisan",{"_807":823,"_809":814,"_783":842},{"_807":823,"_809":844,"_783":845},{"_807":823,"_809":847,"_783":848},{"_807":823,"_809":850,"_783":1293},"PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTAGE; SPORTS & OUTDOOR RECREATION; TENNIS",{"_807":823,"_809":853,"_783":1295},"2024-08-27",{"_807":823,"_809":856,"_783":1297},"336",{"_807":859,"_809":344,"_783":860},{"_807":859,"_809":724,"_783":860},{"_807":859,"_809":862,"_783":825},{"_807":859,"_809":1109,"_783":863},{"_807":859,"_809":865,"_783":863},{"_807":859,"_809":867,"_783":1304},"17/07/2025",{"_807":859,"_809":1114,"_783":1306},"15/01/2026",{"_807":859,"_809":870,"_783":1308},"75.0",{"_807":859,"_809":1119,"_783":1308},{"_807":859,"_809":872,"_783":1123},{"_807":859,"_809":1122,"_783":873},{"_807":875,"_809":876,"_783":877},{"_807":875,"_809":344,"_783":877},{"_807":875,"_809":724,"_783":877},{"_807":875,"_809":880,"_783":740},{"_807":875,"_809":882,"_783":740},{"_807":875,"_809":1134,"_783":740},{"_807":875,"_809":884,"_783":885},{"_807":875,"_809":887,"_783":885},{"_807":875,"_809":1139,"_783":885},{"_807":875,"_809":889,"_783":885},{"_807":875,"_809":891,"_783":885},{"_807":875,"_809":1144,"_783":885},{"_807":875,"_809":893,"_783":894},{"_807":875,"_809":1147,"_783":894},{"_807":875,"_809":896,"_783":897},{"_807":875,"_809":899,"_783":897},{"_807":875,"_809":1152,"_783":897},{"_760":1330},[1331],{"_763":109,"_764":-5,"_123":1332,"_203":1333,"_774":1337,"_780":1338,"_17":1264,"_784":1340,"_786":1341},"gid://shopify/ProductVariant/44514688139461",{"_767":1334,"_769":770,"_123":1335,"_756":1267,"_772":1336},"The Tennis Court Cover Image","gid://shopify/ProductImage/37246384210117",1531,{"_776":777,"_778":1308},[1339],{"_744":745,"_783":1264},"9781648293351",{"_788":1342},[1343,1346],{"_791":1344},{"_793":109,"_126":1345},{"_744":341},{"_791":1347},{"_793":109,"_126":1348},{"_744":722},"relatedProductsCollectionUrl","/collections/shop-all?shopify_products%5BrefinementList%5D%5Bmeta.categories.sub_merged%5D%5B0%5D=SPORT","relatedProductsFirstSubCategory","city","columbus","actionData","errors"]

Novak Djokovic

The Greatest of All Time

by Dominic Bliss