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About Courtside

Boys making the magazine around a table after tennis, with a terrier underneath.

Courtside is a tennis magazine written, edited, drawn and photographed by boys at Eton College. It comes out once a term, in print and here, and it is free to read.

We cover school tennis the way it actually happens: the house match nobody watched, the trial where thirty-one boys queued for ninety seconds of live ball, the argument about string tension that lasted a fortnight. Not results tables - the afternoons themselves.

No piece is commissioned because it is somebody’s turn, and no match is covered because of who was playing in it. Every drawing in the magazine is made by a pupil, and every one is credited.

Who Can Write for Courtside?

Anyone in the school. No experience is needed, and the best pieces so far have come from people who had never written anything before. Drawings and photographs are as welcome as copy - if you would rather illustrate a match report than write one, say so.

Writing and drawing must be your own. You may use tools to check facts, but not to write or draw for you.

Join the Team

In Print

One issue a term, printed by the school press and left where people actually sit down. The website carries the same stories, and a few that would not fit.

The Masthead

Editor
To be confirmed
Deputy Editor
To be confirmed
Art Director
To be confirmed
Photography
To be confirmed
Sub-editors
To be confirmed