Historically, Grass is the fastest of all surfaces and Clay is the slowest. Though, in the last decade Wimbledon has experimented with their surface to slow it down. Big serves were dictating play too much. I also believe that the clay at Roland Garos (French Open) played faster than in years past in '09.
With that being said, Grass, even though slower than 10 years ago, and Clay, arguably faster, Grass is still considerably faster than clay.
Grass and Clay
because it (the grass) reduces the friction between the ground and your shoes unlike clay courts.
Three types of tennis courts are hard courts, clay courts, and grass courts.
Asphalt gravel clay grass wood synthetic grass carpet
hard court clay court sinthetic grass court real grass court. :)
clay (clay courts) and tennis (tennis shoes)
The tennis courts are 23.78 meters long and 10.97 meters wide. Tennis court terrains are grass, clay, hard, carpet and indoor. There is a low net in the center of the court.
The most common are Grass, Clay, and Concrete. There are also indoor courts made of wood, carpet, or rubber.
No. They used to play on grass. They then switched to clay. Then to hard courts. A trivia question is what did Jimmy Conners do that no one will probably ever do again? It's winning the US Open on grass, clay and hard courts.
Clay, Hard (like concrete), and Grass - sometimes on carpet as well==========The ITF classifies courts as:Surface code / Type / DescriptionA / Acrylic / Textured, pigmented, resin-bound coatingB / Artificial clay / Synthetic surface with the appearance of clayC / Artificial grass / Synthetic surface with the appearance of natural grassD / Asphalt / Bitumen-bound aggregateE / Carpet / Textile or polymeric material supplied in rolls or sheets of finished productF / Clay / Unbound mineral aggregateG / Concrete / Cement-bound aggregateH / Grass / Natural grass grown from seedJ / Other / E.g. modular systems (tiles), wood, canvas
The four major tennis tournaments are played on different surfaces. The US Open is played on a Hard Court, French Open is on Clay, Wimbledon is played on grass, and the Australian Open is played also played on a hard court.
I am assuming you are talking about tennis. On a grass surface, the ball will bounce fast. On clay courts, the ball will bounce slower than on grass. On a hard court, the speed of the ball bounce will be in between clay and grass.