EditorialInside the single-sex lounges where the singles congregate, the plants are plastic and a digital fire roars onscreen, in Valencia, Calif. on March 27, 2023. (Jamie Lee Taete/The New York Times)
EditorialInside the single-sex lounges where the singles congregate, the plants are plastic and a digital fire roars onscreen, in Valencia, Calif. on March 27, 2023. (Jamie Lee Taete/The New York Times)
EditorialInside the single-sex lounges where the singles congregate, the plants are plastic and a digital fire roars onscreen, in Valencia, Calif. on March 27, 2023. (Jamie Lee Taete/The New York Times)
EditorialInside the single-sex lounges where the singles congregate, the plants are plastic and a digital fire roars onscreen, in Valencia, Calif. on March 27, 2023. (Jamie Lee Taete/The New York Times)
EditorialInside the single-sex lounges where the singles congregate, the plants are plastic and a digital fire roars onscreen, in Valencia, Calif. on March 27, 2023. (Jamie Lee Taete/The New York Times)
EditorialInside the single-sex lounges where the singles congregate, the plants are plastic and a digital fire roars onscreen, in Valencia, Calif. on March 27, 2023. (Jamie Lee Taete/The New York Times)
EditorialA ballperson holds tennis balls during a women’s singles match of the US Open, at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Sept. 5, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialNick Kyrgios of Australia in action against Daniil Medvedev of Russia at the U.S. Open in new York on Sunday night, Sept. 4, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialElaine Vario, a US Open usher, during the first round of Women’s Singles, on the first day of the US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in Queens, on Aug. 29, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialSerena Williams, of the U.S., reacts after winning a gold medal in the women's singles tennis finals against Maria Sharapova, of Russia, at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, Aug. 4, 2012. (Doug Mills/ The New York Times)
EditorialAlthea Gibson, who broke the color barrier in tennis in 1950, after winning the national women’s singles title at the tournament now known as the U.S. Open, in New York, September 1957. (Carl T. Gossett Jr./The New York Times)