Dive into the behind-the-scenes of tennis like never before. Money, injuries, geopolitics, and marketing: TennisTemple takes you to the heart of the issues shaping the tour, between ambition, drama, and influence strategies. Four powerful stories to understand today's tennis.
Exhausted but omnipresent stars, ever-longer tournaments and exhibitions that have become a business in their own right: tennis is revealing its deepest contradictions, torn between spectacle and physical survival.
They dared to challenge the system. In 2005, Serena and Venus Williams, supported by Billie Jean King, launched a historic fight for equal pay in tennis. Two years later, Wimbledon and Roland-Garros finally gave in. But behind the symbolic victories, gaps still persist today.
Between nostalgia and hope, fans dream of one final doubles partnership between Serena and Venus Williams. Greg Rusedski mentions a possible return of the two sisters on the grass of Wimbledon or under the spotlight of the US Open
It all started with a winning backhand... but called out. In 2004, Serena Williams experienced one of the greatest injustices of her career. That day, tennis shifted into a new era: one of technology serving the truth.