Ballroom chandeliers, vast mosaics, and wood carvings await curious commuters.
Blake Bailey wrote about misogynists for years. The establishment never even stopped to think he was one.
In early 2014, I had started shopping around a few chapters of a memoir, when a fresh-faced agent turned up in my Inbox wanting to represent me. Not knowing the literary world back then, I agreed. …
If Serena builds it, will they come?
“Ultimately I really cannot wait to return to New York and play,” Serena Williams, said as part of a USTA videoconference last week to formally announce plans for this year’s US Open, to be held in early September — sans fans and ultra-sanitized.
Eye off the ball and you probably missed it: in early May, the ITF’s Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) banned Egyptian player Youssef Hossam, 21, from professional tennis for match-fixing, permanently excluding him for life. It was a rare rebuke in a polite, conciliatory sport.
ATP’s World №3 gets lashed by unlikely opponent, WTA’s №602, Ines Ibbou
At minute six in the nine-minute film “Dear Dominic” she posted on Instagram on 8 May, Ines Ibbou, the top female player in Algeria, walks behind the scenes at the Qatar Total Open — past posters of Ashleigh Barty, Karolina Pliskova, and Belinda Bencic — and sets her bag on…
While the Aussies labour down under, see Wimbledon and the U.S. Open outside the lines.
One of the first things a spectator at the All England Lawn Tennis Club notices, when walking into the Wimbledon Grand Slam on any given day, is their fellow spectators — those of us standing on our toes, looking through perfectly manicured flora, craning their necks over various gates and…
The second week of August 2018 — as the pro-associations WTA and ATP prepped for the hard courts of the the US Open — the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club (LLTC) a nine-court sanctuary in the middle of bustling Lagos Island, had its own big announcement: a new name and a…
Lockdown and Isolation in Two Different Eras of Fear
Before the novel corona virus hit U.S. soil, Americans were only set to commemorate one anniversary in 2021: the 20th of the day forever known as 9/11. Now, we will likely add the one-year observation of the March day that COVID-19 became a pandemic in New York. Both will focus…
New Yorkers complain about Central Park crowding. But a subway-ride away…
Who doesn’t want to belong to the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens. Am I right? It’s a gorgeous, legendary facility with tons of displayed history and panache, not to mention clean locker rooms. But the fact of the matter is this: most New Yorkers cannot afford West…
