Racquet Issue 1

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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