ABSTRACT
Competitive tennis players are used to playing multiple tournaments on a variety of court surfaces, more so perhaps than any other sport. In 2011, 210 different court surfaces have been approved by the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The properties of each surface influence the style of the play, the tennis ball rebound and the quality of performance. To facilitate the understanding of these properties, the ITF (2012) classifies court surfaces into categories according to type (acrylic, artificial clay, artificial grass, asphalt, carpet, clay (CL), concrete, grass, other) (see Table 23.1) and court pace rating (CPR): slow (CPR ≤ 29), medium-slow (CPR 30–34), medium (CPR 35–39), medium-fast (CPR 40–44) and fast (CPR ≥ 45). Types and descriptions of playing surfaces https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
Type
Description
Acrylic
Textured, pigmented, resin-bound coating
Artificial clay
Synthetic surface with the appearance of clay
Artificial grass
Synthetic surface with the appearance of natural grass
Asphalt
Bitumen-bound aggregate
Carpet
Textile or polymeric material supplied in rolls or sheets of finished product
Clay
Unbound mineral aggregate
Concrete
Cement-bound aggregate
Grass
Natural grass grown from seed
Other
e.g. wood, canvas
