Keep the Rally Going for Courts Magazine:

It takes a lot of heart to step out on to a tennis court. There are no teammates to high-five, no coaches to give pep talks, no excuses. If you win a match, all the glory is yours But if you lose, all the fault lies at your feet.

Starting a publication — is much the same. It’s a solitary pursuit that will consume your life. The risks are high and failure is not really an option. Because if you fail at your magazine, it’s not just a game. It's a lot of your and other people's money

When I first met Laurent Van Reepinghen, the founder of Courts magazine, Laurent, who founded Courts in 2017, he had just put out his 12th issue and his 3rd issue in English. He was kind, enthusiastic and receptive to my many off-the-wall tennis ideas: the tennis revival in Iraq; the retired player starting a tennis charity in Uganda; the Gilded Age Tennis Clubs of New York.

Laurent and Courts embodies the reason we all love tennis. But after seven years of nonstop work, as well as practicing law, he is burned out and €45,000 in debt for printing and taxes. There is a plan to keep Courts going beyond this debt payment. But to execute this plan, we need to save Courts from folding. To you or me, it's a lot of money, but among the gazillionaires and hedge-funders and conspicuous consumption, it's not.

Please give what you can — or send this to a Angel or VC fund. We will keep great tennis journalism alive!