Latest Posts

What Tennis Can (and Cannot) Learn from Albert Einstein Ace, Marvel, Spy: A Novel of Alice Marble The Final Tiebreaker The Geau Axiom Duffel Bag Tennis Beyond the Headlines: April 21, 2025 A Tennis Resurrection Story for Easter USTA League via the Captain’s Letters

The US Open: It’s a Hard Court Life

Throughout the history of the US Open tennis championships, the tournament was traditionally conducted on grass courts. That all changed in 1975 when the court surface was switched over to clay. Three years later, the event changed once again to a hard court surface. The original transition from grass to clay was prompted by player complaints about uneven and soft grass courts previously used for the tournament. The subsequent change to hard court was most likely driven by economics.