Such a style usually involves an effective first serve, strong volley technique and the deployment of a slice backhand to ...

Not the grass courts attached to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I.. Why? Surely those places would be ...

Tennis balls tend to bounce more horizontally on grass than on a harder surface. As the ball hits the blades of grass, they bend and don't provide as much upward rebound.

Alcaraz's tennis is so often a highlight reel but on grass, he does his most devastating work in the negative spaces of ...

Managing the most famous lawn in sports is about soil and grass with a balance of water and dryness for the annual two-week ...

The world No.4 picked the Bad Homburg Open for it, the last tune-up tournament in the week leading into Wimbledon when most ...

Martina Navratilova’s first steps on grass were hardly glamorous, but they set the stage for a career that would redefine ...

The slippery surface of the eight-millimeter-high grass — an International Tennis Federation standard — is perfect for accelerating your tennis ball. Historically, grass courts were the ...

Grass courts: Fast and low. In the past 25 years or so, tennis has grown more homogenized. Gone are the days of serve-and-volley maestros such as Boris Becker, Martina Navratilova and Pete Sampras ...

For millions of weekend tennis players, the court itself is almost always a hard, unchangeable surface that plays with somewhat predictable physics. At the annual Wimbledon Championships ...