Jake Rowland 
Finding a tennis club nearby is easy; finding one that fits your schedule, budget, playing level, and idea of a good hit takes a little more thought. A map may show courts around the corner, but it won’t always tell you whether they’re open to the public, offer beginner classes, or require a membership. Use … Read more
A serve can look untouchable before the ball even reaches the service box. The fastest officially recorded women’s serve is a striking example: Spain’s Georgina García Pérez was clocked at 220 km/h (136.7 mph) at the 2018 Hungarian Ladies Open in Budapest. The number is remarkable, but it also raises a useful question: what does … Read more
A 263 km/h serve sounds like the clear answer to “What’s the fastest serve at a tennis tournament?”—until you ask which tournament, which radar system, and whether the reading was officially recognized. Serve-speed records are impressive, but they’re not collected under identical conditions everywhere. Here are the best-known men’s benchmarks at the Grand Slams, plus … Read more
A serve traveling at 263 km/h sounds like an unquestionable record—until you ask who measured it, at which tournament, and whether the result counts as official. The fastest serve in tennis depends on those details: Sam Groth owns the highest widely reported speed, while John Isner holds the ATP-recognized benchmark. The fastest serve ever recorded … Read more
A serve can be over before the receiver has taken a full step. The fastest men’s serve on record is credited to Australia’s Sam Groth: 263.4 km/h (163.7 mph), hit at a Challenger tournament in Busan, South Korea, in 2012. It is a remarkable mark—but serve-speed records come with an important asterisk: not every tournament … Read more
A European tennis trip can mean very different things depending on where you sit: close to the grass at Wimbledon, high above the clay at Monte Carlo, or beneath the grand architecture of Rome’s Foro Italico. The continent’s best-known venues are more than tournament backdrops. Their surfaces, settings and traditions shape how the tennis is … Read more
Australia’s biggest tennis moments are spread across more than one famous court. Melbourne Park is the clear centrepiece, but the country’s tennis story also runs through Kooyong’s grass courts, Sydney’s Olympic-era stadium and tournament grounds in Brisbane, Adelaide and Hobart. Each venue has a different feel—and, for players, a different test. Whether you’re planning a … Read more
A tennis venue can change the way a match feels before the first ball is struck. At the US Open, the noise rolls around a stadium holding tens of thousands; at Newport, grass courts sit beside a museum devoted to the game’s history. America’s best-known tennis destinations range from vast modern complexes to intimate clubs, … Read more
The matches that stay with us are rarely just the ones with the biggest scorelines. They are the ones in which tactics, nerve, rivalry and circumstance collide: a champion pulled to the brink, an underdog changing the sport’s story, or a single point that seems to last forever. These famous tennis matches span different eras … Read more
A serve-and-volley point can be over almost as soon as it begins: the server strikes, races forward, and has to make a sharp decision before the returner can settle. The best practitioners made that rush look less like a gamble than a plan. Their styles differed—some relied on placement and touch, others on a huge … Read more