You didn't imagine it getting worse.

Those Sunday morning matches you used to crave?

Now you're checking your phone at 6am... hoping your partner doesn't text with "strategic adjustments" for today's game.

The group chat that used to be about court times and coffee plans?

It's become a minefield of passive-aggressive comments about who played with whom.

And that sick feeling in your stomach before matches with certain people?

That's not nerves. That's your body telling you something's very wrong.

You fell in love with tennis for the pure joy of competition.

Not for walking on eggshells around women who've forgotten this is supposed to be fun.

Hi, I'm Kasey. And five years ago, I almost quit tennis.

Not because I wasn't good enough.

Not because my body couldn't handle it.

But because the sport I loved had become toxic.

The whispered conversations that stopped when I walked by...

Partners who'd ghost me after a tough loss...

Women I'd considered friends suddenly treating me like competition instead of community...

Sound familiar?

I realized I had two choices:

Accept that this is just "how women's tennis is"...

Or create the tennis culture I actually wanted to be part of.

[Photo of Kasey with Chris Evert]

That's me with Chris Evert - a woman who proved you can be a champion AND a class act.

Hit Happy Tennis exists for every woman who believes the same thing.

Play hard. Compete fiercely. Choose joy.

— Kasey Hammond, Founder