Grass court tennis is a slowly vanishing art. At my own tennis club in west London, a long war of attrition is being waged against the grass courts: one recently fell victim to astroturf; just three ...

A member of the groundstaff mows the grass on a court on the first day of the 2025 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 30, ...

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 ...

Grass is an enigma in the tennis world. The surface that was originally dictated as the playing field for the game when it was invented as lawn tennis in 19th-century England has fallen to the wayside ...

Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and the only Grand Slam still played on grass, taking place every year at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. The grass courts are in ...

Queen’s, the prestigious grass-court tournament warm-up for Wimbledon, will be a mixed tournament from 2025. The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has confirmed that a WTA 500-level tournament will run ...

LONDON—‘Let, second serve,’ announces Fergus Murphy politely, midway through the match between Ernests Gulbis and Simone Bolelli. The players don’t hear him, continuing to trade ferocious ...

The best male tennis player in America has a coach who knows how to play tennis on grass. World No. 5 Taylor Fritz is working with Paul Annacone, who coached a couple of decent grass-courters: Pete ...

Grass courts are the foundation of traditional tennis, and they’re coming to the QCA! Dylan Wiemers and Erica Thulen from the Quad City Tennis Club joined Our Quad Cities News to serve up all 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 ...

Casper Ruud claims one of his past comments about grass was "misunderstood" as the three-time Grand Slam finalist insists he didn't mean to shade grass tennis, but was only talking about his own level ...

Iga Świątek started flirting with a very strange idea in the fall of 2023. This was after she’d finished the season as world No. 1 for a second consecutive year. After she’d won her fourth Grand Slam ...