Oh.....tennis on grass is starting....Wimbledon coming soon, Mon June 30th.

[a kennedy]

Yikes, the falls, Fonseca from Brazil just lost his match, I’m sure he was kinda hurt. Had two very bad spills, felt sorry for him, I really like him, hope he’s ok.

[marble falls]

1. I play tennis on grass all the time. The game may be a lot slower, but it is a lot more fun. We volley a little bit ...

... toke a little bit. Giggle a little bit.

[roomtomove]

2. Why play on grass????

I think playing on grass is simply a snobby little british thing. After a few matches the grass is worn and looking ugly. The Brits should just use astro turf so that can keep their pretty little green courts looking perfectly british greenly manicured.

[a kennedy]

3. Actually I heard the players like it better if the grass is brown and worn down.....much safer

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then the green grass….way to slippery when green, so much better traction when brown.

[tishaLA]

4. The US Open was played on grass until 1975

And the Australian Open wás also grass until some time in the 70s but I'm too lazy to look up the year. The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport RI has grass counts and hosts an ATP tournament every summer.

So grass has been ubiquitous in tennis since its beginnings -- it was, after all, the original surface for the game, followed by cay -- unlike hard courts. (Notably, when the US Open switched from grass, it didn't switch to hard courts, but to Har-Tru, a version of clay.)