Hello everyone, and welcome to the Tennis RPF Rarepair Prompt Fest (the Tennis RRPPF, if you will). Thank you all so much for your interest! This is a fandom event that will run from June 18th to August 2nd, focused on creating more content for the rarer ships in the Tennis RPF fandom, together!
Based on the numbers on AO3 and the general vibe of the tennis RPF community on tumblr, we are going for a very broad definition of "rarepair" of anything other than Sincaraz, with the goal of generating fanworks for a wide range of other pairings.
Please check out the following links:
FAQ
Schedule
If you don't have time now, basic info from the FAQ is copied below under the Read More. Thanks everyone - more posts to come as we get closer to the prompt window opening, and if you have a question, please don't hesitate to ask!
How does this whole thing work?
You will submit tennis rarepair RPF prompts via a google form (link coming soon).
Prompts are organized by the mod and released.
You will create fanworks (fic/video edits/graphics/art/etc) based on the prompt(s) that inspire you and post them.
We will all have a bunch of new rarepair content to check out! Fills will be reblogged and compiled on this blog.
The format of the event is heavily inspired by @advantage-tennisblr, a prompt meme that ran a year and a half ago.
What counts as a “rarepair?”
For the purposes of this event, a rarepair is anything that is not Sincaraz (the relationship between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz). Since the start of 2024, there have been over ten times as many works on AO3 tagged with their relationship as the next most popular pairing. While the definition of a rarepair will always be up for debate, especially in a long-running fandom where the most popular players change over time, given that in the past two and a half years, this ship is over an order of magnitude more popular than anything else, this is where the line for the event is being drawn…at least this time around! See here for numbers and more explanation if you’re curious. That being said, you are encouraged to go as rare and as niche as possible!
What’s the timeline?
Prompting opens: Thursday, June 18th
Prompting closes: Friday, June 26th, 11:59:59pm PST
Prompts published: Saturday, June 27th
Posting opens: Sunday, July 12th (last day of Wimbledon)
Posting closes: Sunday, August 2nd (first day of the Canada Open)
Suffers a fall while trying to hit a volley during his quarter-final match against Flavio Cobolli at the 2026 French Open. Felix still ended up winning that point
my point still stands. fuck tour organizers fuck your schedulers fuck the atp tour for doing absolutely nothing to penalize him in any way and still allowing him to earn a fucking livelihood. there are some serious things wrong with this sport and these people need to start fucking doing something about it if they don’t want the sport to completely crash and fucking burn
“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”
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turnnoffyourmind
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tangentwithtanner
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areudirty
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