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Between 1960 and 1971, the men's singles title at the Australian Championships went to a home player every single year. Eleven straight.
You try a shoe on in the store. You walk a few laps of the carpet, do a couple of awkward little hops by the bench, and it feels right — snug at the heel, no pinch across the toes.
The week before the 2025 US Open, we printed the men's singles draw and did something that took ninety seconds and felt slightly grim: we counted the Americans. Eleven in the 128.
The story everyone tells about American tennis is a story about men, and it ends in 2003. That is the year Andy Roddick won the US Open and became, to date, the last American man to win a Grand Slam…
You are standing in a pro shop or hovering over a checkout page with a shoe that costs as much as eight sets of strings, and a question you have probably asked yourself before: how do I know the…
The advice circulates every season, in pro shop conversations and forum threads alike: if you're a heavier player, a hard mover, or someone who rolls inward at footstrike, you should be buying a…
The first thing we did with each shoe was the same: a 4.5-meter shuttle run on a worn green hard court, planting hard on the right foot at the line, then measuring two things — how far past the line…
There is a version of the internet where the ASICS Gel Resolution X is a heavy, hot, slow disappointment, and a version where it is the most protective hard-court shoe on the market.
There is a moment, two or three times a set, when your opponent hits a ball that lands shorter than they meant it to. It sits up.
The between-the-legs shot gets the highlight reel and the slow-motion replay and the commentator who forgets words for a second. It is the tennis shot everyone clips.
In the first round at Wimbledon in 2010, John Isner hit 113 aces in a single match. Mahut hit 103. The match ran 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days and finished 70-68 in the fifth set.
Three hundred ninety-five grams per shoe, in a US men's 10.5. That is the first number we wrote down when the Adidas SoleCourt Boost came out of the box on the scale, and it is the number we kept…