| Courts - Introduction |
The importance of the court surface to the nature of tennis is the very reason for the proliferation of tennis surface types, which have developed from the early days of the garden lawn.
The court influences how the players move around and how the ball bounces. Of all the equipment, it is primarily the court surface that the player must adapt their game to.
The limitations provided by varying climate, the seasons and the maintenance demands required to produce a natural turf surface of acceptable quality soon led to alternatives being sought in the form of clay (originally crushed brick), followed by other granular mineral surfaces, cement, asphalt, macadam, and timber. As polymer and material technology has developed in the twentieth century, the introduction of new man-made, synthetic surface types has accelerated: hardcourts with polymer coatings, cushioned coatings, rubberised shock pads, textiles, artificial turf, plastic modular systems, etc.
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