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Gentlemen\u2019s Doubles tennis final at the 1897 Wimbledon Championships. Photo: J. Parmley Paret. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

I learned a lot while fact-checking the Summer 2021 issue, and I owe a ton of that knowledge to Joy Katz for her essay \u201cTennis Is the Opposite of Death: A Proof<\/a>.\u201d Now, whenever the subject of tennis comes up, I find myself bursting with trivia. Did you know that the first Wimbledon championship was held in 1877, or that the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club employs a Harris\u2019s hawk named Rufus to keep pigeons from interfering with matches, or that Hawk-Eye is the name of the technology used to verify a challenged umpire call? There\u2019s a story in there somewhere. Tennis is well known for drawing the attention of the literary set\u2014Martin Amis<\/a>, Claudia Rankine<\/a>, David Foster Wallace<\/a>, and John Jeremiah Sullivan<\/a> come to mind\u2014and the archive of\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em> boasts a wealth of writing on the subject, the sport often taking the role of the Hawk-Eye\u2014a keen lens through which life\u2019s quick volleys may be slowed, reviewed, and challenged in turn.<\/p>\n

In Ross Kenneth Urken\u2019s \u201c1, Love<\/a>,\u201d a tennis stroke becomes the embodiment of a young boy\u2019s \u201cneurotic, racquet-throwing heart,\u201d with nods to Vladimir Nabokov and Philip Roth along the way:<\/p>\n

At its best, my slice backhand follows the flamboyant path of a violin virtuoso\u2019s bow striking the climactic note of a concerto\u2014from above my right shoulder plucked diagonally down to my left shoestring. The ball\u2019s tone is a hollow pok<\/em> on hard courts and a chalky chh-chh <\/em>on clay that dies on the second bounce. All these dramatics\u2014mere vestiges of a time when I wanted to impress Angela, my middle school crush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Louisa Thomas opens \u201cLet It Be Love<\/a>\u201d by rejecting the schmaltzy application of a popular tennis term:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a T-shirt favored by a certain kind of tennis player that says, \u201cLove means nothing to a tennis player.\u201d It\u2019s a pun that no one, it seems, can resist. The 2010 U.S. Open\u2019s slogan is \u201cIt must be love.\u201d Please<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nick Twemlow eschews sentimental love to tackle a range of tough and tender matters of the heart in his sprawling poem \u201cAttributed to the Harrow Painter<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n

When I was twelve,
\nMy tennis coach asked me
\nTo pose for him after practice.
\nI\u2019m an artist, he told me,
\nI coach to pay the bills \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDouble Fault<\/a>\u201d finds A-J Aronstein investigating tennis to \u201cfigure out what to pass on (a service motion, a slice backhand, a tennis club, a philosophy)\u201d:<\/p>\n

The courts were our family\u2019s livelihood; their quality was a matter of pride for my father. Like a farmer who knows the precise chemical composition of the soil in his fields, he could step out on the courts, sniff the air, and know whether to water them or let them bake in the sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pamela Petro\u2019s \u201cThunderStick<\/a>\u201d is titled after and structured around a tennis racket:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not every day you get a box of tennis racquets in the mail. I ripped it open and immediately shook hands with each one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Clancy Martin similarly centers his story \u201cAn Event in the Stairwell<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n

I kept my eyes on the racket. Also on his eyes, because you can anticipate a blow that way. Everyone narrows his eyes and looks where he\u2019s going to hit you before he strikes. This is the first lesson of boxing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe promised she\u2019d buy this racket from me. I got this racket special. From my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Randy, Emily had told me, had a high school\u2013age daughter who was expected by many people to be the next Serena Williams. She lived with her mother in the Bronx and was sponsored by Puma. I noticed the tennis racket had a broken string. Emily was hiding in the bedroom all this time and had instructed me to tell Randy that she was out. I could not decide whether that was reassuring or suspicious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In \u201cThe Ghost in the Dirt<\/a>,\u201d Rowan Ricardo Phillips talks clay courts and the forgotten legacy of Georges Henri Gougoltz:<\/p>\n

Myth, legend, and truth: they work on their own time and make their own order\u2014they\u2019re brilliant and terrible. This story has never been and will always be about a man\u2019s suicide in the face of crushing financial debt. We\u2019ll get to that. And this story both never was and will always be about Rafael Nadal\u2019s run as the master of clay-court tennis. The two collided, unwittingly, on a warm Sunday afternoon in early June in Paris, 2017, when Nadal once again won the French Open in front of a crowd packed into Court Philippe Chatrier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To take us out, Scott Korb illustrates the mythic heights of tennis writing in his essay \u201cStage Struck<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n

Sports broadcasters are guiltier these days than sportswriters of the \u201cgrand metaphor\u201d approach where tennis is concerned. Following the major tournaments this summer on television, I\u2019ve heard again and again of the history about to be made: Rafael Nadal\u2019s seventh French championship (history made), Djokovic\u2019s career Slam (history not made), Murray\u2019s becoming the first Brit to win Wimbledon since 1936 (nope). Even Federer\u2019s thirty-first birthday was seen as historic, according to a certain fan site: \u201cGod is too an imaginative word, rather I would call him a \u2018Prophet\u2019 \/ Someday the prophet will make Tennis the most loved sport, I bet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Christopher Notarnicola\u2019s work was featured in\u00a0<\/em>The Best American Essays 2017\u00a0and has been published in\u00a0<\/em>American Short Fiction,\u00a0<\/em>Bellevue Literary Review,\u00a0<\/em>Consequence Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>Image,\u00a0<\/em>North American Review,\u00a0<\/em>The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. Find him in Pompano Beach, Florida, and at\u00a0christophernotarnicola.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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