Dezeen News: mixed doubles tennis player Brian Battistone turned heads at the U.S. Open this week with a two-handled tennis racket his playing partner has dubbed "the alien". More »

Dezeen Wire: as the sliding roof on Wimbledon's Centre Court was closed today to allow the men's singles final between Andy Murray and Roger Federer to continue despite heavy rain, The Telegraph argues that the Populous-designed cover is the real star of this year's championships. More »

Cologne 2012: Dutch designer Bertjan Pot showed this chair made of a tennis net at imm cologne last week. More »

Dezeen Wire: British architects Grimshaw have been selected by the All England Lawn Tennis Club to design a new masterplan for Wimbledon, home to the annual tennis championships.

Due to complete in 2020, the proposals are commissioned following the conclusion of the tennis club's 1993 Long Term Plan developments, which included a new roof for Centre Court by architects Populous.

You can see more projects by Grimshaw here, including a decommissioned blast furnace converted into a museum of steel.

V-shaped concrete columns illuminated by blue lights give a tennis centre in Beijing the appearance of a spaceship ready for launch. More »

Paris architect David Tajchman designed this multi-storey timber tennis centre for a competition organised by a Swedish timber company. More »