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The courses of tennis are standard in dimension, but change considerably into external material. The rules of tennis dictate the length, the width, and the placement of the lines on a court of tennis. The courses of tennis have a variety of surfaces and can be outside or inside. In this article, we will present dimensions and the basic aspects of the courses of tennis and will discuss the various types of surfaces of court of tennis.

The rules of tennis dictate that the courses of tennis are 78 feet length of base line to the base line. A net, 3 feet top in the medium, divides the court into two equal halves. The courses of tennis are 36 feet of broad doubles put at the variation with the doubles put at the variation, and 27 feet broad of chooses the touchline chooses the touchline.

With the difference of dimensions of a court of tennis, the surface of court of tennis can change in the character. Various surfaces have various characteristics which affect the model of the play. Common surfaces for the courses of tennis external include grass, red clay, clay green, and the courses hard. Moreover, the courses of tennis often have hard or synthetic surfaces of interior, carpet-like surfaces.

The very first ones run of tennis were made out of grass. While the number of courses of grass tennis decreased these last years, some remain, and the world’S the majority of prestigious tournament of tennis, the championships at Wimbledon, is still exploited courses of grass tennis.

Courses of grass tennis are considered a fast surface because the ball moves quickly by the court when it rebounds. Typically, the ball remains low and close to the ground. Because the speed of the court and unreliability of the rebound, historically the players exploiting courses of grass tennis prefer to draw a flight the ball out of the air as much as possible.

Red clay and clay green are the two types of clay, or slow down, go to the front of surfaces. Red courses of clay tennis are made out of clay normal or crushed red brick. Open French is exploited the red clay courses. Clay green, the standard more common of clay court to the UNITED STATES, is made in Har-Tru, a mixture of stone, rubber, and plastics crushed. Clay courses are considered slow because the ball rebounds more slowly in addition to court. Typically, the players exploiting courses of clay tennis prefer to strike balls in addition to rebound by behind the base line.

The courses hard, the surface of the court most common to the UNITED STATES, are another fast surface of court. Courses hard are made out of asphalt or concrete coating with a thin scellor and a special painting. Some types of course hard have more extended and rubber coatings. The ball rebounds high in addition to hard surfaces of court of tennis and moves by the court quickly. Since the ball has a reliable rebound and the ball draws aside the court quickly, the players can use a variety of the tactic. Generally, the aggressive play is preferred.

In conclusion, the players of tennis play also inside, particularly during the winter, on the courses of tennis of interior. Surfaces of interior of court of tennis are made concrete or of a synthetic matter or plastic which imitates grass. The courses of tennis of interior are generally the fastest surface of court of tennis of all. Of professional level, with the hard services, the discharges, and the powerful trokes of reasons dominate of the matches over the courses of tennis of interior.

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This is when a suspension is not a suspension, a major fine is not a major fine.

It took months to figure this out, how to word it perfectly, but on Monday, the International Tennis Federation did it.

It gave Serena Williams a punishment that wasn't a punishment.

The $175,000 fine and three-year suspended ban from the U.S. Open and probationary period for her f-bomb laced, threatening tirade at a tiny U.S. Open line judge do sound like big words, don't they?

They aren't. Break it down, and Williams will end up paying just $82,500. She recently referred to $50,000 as the furniture budget in her home remodeling.

If she doesn't have another major outburst, the fine is cut to that number, and the suspension thrown out. She will not miss a tournament. Her debt will be paid.

Look, the fine means nothing to Williams. She won't feel it. But the ITF can say that it's a record size.

OK, Serena? Is this OK with you?

I can only imagine ITF officials pleading with her to please, please let them appear to be an actual governing body.

You remember what happened. The line judge called footfault on Williams, who then waved her racquet in the judge's face and threatened to take the ``(f-ing) ball'' and shove it down her "(f-ing) throat.''

That led to a point penalty on match point. So the match was over.

Let's be honest: Race is an issue. It always is with tennis and the Williams sisters. Some people will think Williams was given a record fine because she's black. Others will think she was given a pass because she's black.

Some people think she was the bully, some think she was victim of a bad call.

The ITF doesn't really care what's right. That was never an issue. The only issue was this: How do you give a penalty that looks big but isn't?

The point isn't that she was punished too much or too little, but rather that it was a non-justice based on non-truths, when true leadership was crying out because people's real feelings were involved about the game, Williams, race, and sportsmanship.

The feelings are so real that some people insist the video evidence proves she never footfaulted. Others demand the video evidence proved she did.

Here's the truth: There is no camera shot, video or still, that can determine anything.

There are lots of truths missing here, a mess that has made tennis look uglier than ever. Williams' smokescreen reasons for her tantrum, her ``punishment,'' the ITF's naked self-interest, John McEnroe's irresponsibility.

The ITF let this thing drag on so long that hard feelings only grew. It became a social debate lining up mostly along racial lines.

So the ITF points out that this is the biggest fine ever at a major. Jeff Tarango got about half as much for storming off at Wimbledon and calling a chair ump corrupt. His wife later slapped the judge, too.

Of course, the ITF doesn't mention that Tarango was also banned from two majors. McEnroe was once suspended for two months.

But McEnroe had been a brat for years, and that could have been a career-achievement punishment. Serena has not behaved bad nearly as often, though she did threaten a player who cheated her at this year's French Open. In fact, one tennis official told the New York Times, "We're not talking about a John McEnroe type character here."

Here was the telling quote, a bit of truth, from ITF president Francesco Ricci Bitti a few weeks ago:

"I don't think (an Australian Open ban) would make much sense, because it would penalize the people handing out the punishment. For the grand slam committee to exclude her from a grand slam doesn't seem likely.

"A significant financial penalty makes more sense. But it has to be significant enough for the fans.''

They didn't want to kick her out of a major tournament because that would hurt the tournament. How is that's a concern to a governing body?

And they wanted a fine big enough to look like justice, not to serve it.

Let's go back over what really happened, over the truth.

Williams was in the semifinals of the U.S. Open playing Kim Clijsters in a tight match. Williams had been spouting off all year about how she was the real No. 1, not No. 1 ranked Dinara Safina. That had racial overtones. So did the sudden popularity of teenager Melanie Oudin, a white girl from the South, at the Open. How much of her appeal was that she was the great white hope?

So that was the setting. And Clijsters, just back from a 2 1/2-year break, was beating Williams. Williams was two points from losing when she was called for footfault on her second serve.

Did she footfault? Yes. Absolutely.

I was sitting just behind the line judge, several rows back. Other media members were sitting there too. She clearly stepped way out onto the thick baseline.

But that's not really the point. With several chances, Williams could not bring herself to play the final point. Why?

Because to her, that was less embarrassing than losing to a woman just back from maternity leave.
Williams quit this match, not planning to get thrown out, but knowing at some level that she would.

Meanwhile, McEnroe, still the face of the game in many ways, was on TV ripping the line judge, saying he didn't see a footfault and that a judge doesn't make calls like that such in a crucial situation. Juan Martin del Potro, by the way, was called for a footfault in a crucial third-set tiebreaker last week during the ATP Finals.

But whatever, McEnroe, famous for being a jerk to officials, was irresponsibly and unwittingly fueling a racial debate even though there was this truth:

From where he was sitting, he could not have seen whether Williams had actually foot-faulted.

The next day, Williams issued a statement calling it an "unfair line call.'' The day after that, with endorsers presumably upset, she issued a real apology.

She went on to win the tour championship, reclaim the No. 1 ranking, appear nude on the cover of ESPN the Magazine, pitch her new book, appear on Leno and every other show.

Did she get away with this? Obviously.

But was justice served? Well, that was never a consideration.

Email me at gregcouch09@aol.com

Tennis Deserves Fault for Serena's Flawed Justice originally appeared on Tennis FanHouse on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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