Confronting opponents, trials, and tests has been a constant in Venus Williams’s life on and off the tennis court. It hasn’t been easy: a 30-year professional tennis career and an autoimmune disease diagnosis in 2011 mean she’s seen her fair share of ups and downs. How she’s gotten through is something the players scrambling to […]
Allysa Seely is no stranger to defying the norm. The Team USA paratriathlete faced three challenging diagnoses while a student at Arizona State University: Chiari Malformation, basilar invagination, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. As a result, she underwent brain and spine surgery as well as a below-the-knee leg amputation on one of her legs. To this day, […]
Historically, my exposure to tennis has been minimal. My family never belonged to a country club. I didn’t play on the high school team. There was that annual unit in P.E. when we’d excavate a handful of dusty, warped rackets from the gym’s supply closet (this was public school in the ’90s, so they were […]
Turn frustration into fuel with a good old-fashioned boxing session that strengthens your body and elevates your mood, punch by punch. Science agrees: A September 2022 study in the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine concluded that non-contact boxing can provide a cathartic release of stress and anger. “It’s a total mood booster,” says Bobbie Jo […]
In January 2024, 30-year-old Danielle Collins announced her retirement from professional tennis. She wanted to end her career on a positive note. She wanted to start a family. It was time. Despite sports analysts generally acting like any athlete over 28 years old is ancient, the pundits were shocked by her decision. Especially as the […]