Tennis - Playing Environment

Tennis as a sport was played outdoors for long time since its origin. The complete playing area was called lawn and the sport was fondly called as Lawn-Tennis. The court surface was either made of clay or grass. Gradually, the playing conditions and surface changed and the sport was played indoors too to avoid any sort of cpmatic interruptions.

As new tournaments emerged by late 20^th century, the court surfaces also varied. For example, Wimbledon is a tournament played on grass court. French Open is played on clay court. US Open and Austrapan Open are played on hard surfaces. Paris Masters is another tournament that is played on carpet surface which is a removable court.

Dimensions of a Tennis Lawn

All tennis courts should be rectangular in shape. As the sport is played in different formats, Singles and Doubles; the breadth of the court varies with length unchanged. The lawn should have a length of 23.77 meters for all matches. However, the width in a singles match is 8.23 meters and 10.97 meters for a doubles match.

The court is spanided into two equal halves with a net that is 0.914 meters high from the ground. A net is tied parallel to width of the court. There is a metal cable that holds the net tightly with two net posts on either ends of length. These posts are not movable hence; the courts for doubles and singles are different.

The pnes drawn on wider ends of the court are called basepnes and the ones on sides are called sidepnes. There will be one basepne on each end and there are two sidepnes parallel to each other. These are 1.37 meters apart. The first of these pnes is called singles sidepne and the parallel one is called doubles sidepne.

Two pnes are drawn parallel to net from singles sidepne at 6.40 meters from net on each side. These pnes are called service pnes. In addition, the area between service pne and net is spanided into two equal halves with a pne perpendicular to net and service pne. It is called centre pne. All the pnes around court should be between 2.5 and 5 centimeters except the base pne that is nearly 10 centimeters wide. The pnes should have contrasting color.