RACQU E T No. 1
08 Tennis Is Not the Literary Sport In His Essay on David Foster Wallace, John Jeremiah Sullivan Flirts With a Distortion of Category. By Sasha Frere-Jones
44 Je T’aime...Moi Non Plus
Yannick Noah Has Been Asked to Save French Tennis. Again. By Carole Bouchard
12 The Davis Cup is Broken Fans Deserve a Real World Cup For Tennis. By Gerald Marzorati
56 Pompeii in Queens Forest Hills Stadium Has Been Home to Iconic Moments in Both Tennis and Rock ’n’ Roll. By Steven Kurutz
18 Stacking the Deck When the U.S. Open Planted
74 Tennis Lessons Coming to Terms With Tennis’ Elitism. By Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Some Bad Seeds. By Joe McGovern
20 This Tun of Treasure A New World Champion
84 Arthur Ashe Vs. Muhammad Ali The Sportsmen’s Lives Read as a Conversation About What it Means To Be American. By Stephen Tignor
in Court Tennis. By James Zug
28 The Leaning Tower of Pizzazz The Iconic Tennis Designer Ted Tinling Was Allergic to Tradition. By Thessaly La Force
104 Serve and Volley, Near Vichy Fiction. By Greg Jackson
on the cover “Yannick Noah” by Mads Berg.
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