The Season That Makes Everyone Fall in Love With Tennis Whites
imagii — Tennis Season · July 2026
There's a two-week stretch every summer when the whole country briefly becomes fluent in tennis — strawberries appear on every table, the doubles net gets dusted off, and green-and-white starts turning up in wardrobes and living rooms that have nothing to do with the sport. We've pulled together three pieces from the shop that capture it, starting with an ace for the tennis obsessive in your life.
You're an Ace — Personalised Birthday Card
For the actual tennis obsessive in your life — the one who's been glued to the grass-court coverage all fortnight, or the club player who never misses a Tuesday evening match — there's this. A retro-illustrated court in purple and green, a ball resting mid-serve, and a "You're an Ace!" that does exactly what it says. Add their name, or their name and age, and it becomes properly theirs.
It's a small, cheerful thing, but it's the kind of card that gets propped on a mantelpiece rather than binned — the varsity lettering and grass-court colours give it more personality than a shop-bought default.
Vintage Tennis Racket & Towel
There's a specific kind of stillness that happens between points — racket down, towel over the shoulder, a beat before the next serve. This print captures exactly that pause. A retro racket rendered in lilac and sage rests beside a worn towel and a scatter of balls, painted with a soft, painterly finish that reads as classic rather than nostalgic-for-nostalgia's-sake.
It's an easy one to place: a home gym that wants a bit more personality than motivational typography, a games room, a teenager's wall that's outgrown posters but not yet ready for "grown-up" art. The palette — foliage green, soft lilac, tennis-ball chartreuse — pulls straight from the tenniscore colour story designers keep coming back to this year.
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Minimalist Tennis Court Illustration
For anyone who wants the reference without the retro romance, this one goes the other way entirely — a close, cropped view of the net and a single ball resting on the baseline, rendered in clean flat colour. It's the print equivalent of a well-cut polo shirt: graphic, a little architectural, and it works as hard in a home office as it would in a locker room.
The sage-and-pine palette (Sage Court Green, Deep Pine, Tennis Ball Chartreuse) is close kin to the shades interior designers are currently pointing to as the more sophisticated end of tenniscore — the version that reads as gallery art first and sports memorabilia a distant second.
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Bringing the Court Indoors
You don't need to have picked up a racket all year to want a bit of this in your home right now — that's rather the point of the season's colour palette. Whether it's a gallery-quality print on the wall or a card in the post, these three pieces are our small contribution to summer's most persistent look.
