No sport is defined as much by its playing surface as tennis, and no surface is as iconic as the lush, verdant grass courts of Wimbledon. The tournament is underway, and matches are unfolding on ...

The tennis court itself plays a huge role in how each game of your match goes. The three surfaces played on are hard (indoor and outdoor), clay and, more rarely these days, grass. Read ahead for a ...

But such is their lot. Tennis shoes trample the grass courts as players serve, volley and stroke their way to each point. And the vegetation, so carefully cultivated by dozens of keepers for the ...

Jelena Ostapenko remembers the first time she stepped on a grass court. It was 2012, and she was at Roehampton for a Grade 1 junior tournament. "The first thing I had in my mind is, 'How can we play ...

MORE: At Wimbledon, a master groundskeeper perfects tennis in ‘an English garden’ The grass courts at Wimbledon have undergone significant changes over the years. Historically, the courts have ...

Mark Kuhn mows the grass court at the All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club.Credit... Supported by Photographs and Text by Rachael Wright Mark Kuhn is hunched over, one knee on the ground, pulling dandelions ...

With three weeks between the two tournaments, how would he manage the transition from clay courts to grass this ... Djokovic is concerned, playing tennis on grass no longer constitutes the kind ...

The Quad City Tennis Club has aced it with major upgrades to its outdoor facilities this summer. Construction on a new clubhouse and three state of the art grass courts is underway, with a goal to ...