Tennis Courts

The bright sun fills the court with a heat matched only by the intensity of the game taking place. The green ground and neon ball accent the white clouds floating gently above, and the white shorts waving swiftly in the wind as players vie for an advantage and win. Boiling sweat swings off the noses of these single minded machines, whose only focus is fixing their bodies at exactly the right place and time to make what they see happening inside their minds become a reality. Tennis is played on a rectangular flat surface, usually of grass, clay, concrete or a synthetic suspended court. The court is 78 feet (23.78 m) long, 39 feet on a side. Its width is 27 feet (8.23 m) for singles matches and 36 feet (10.97 m) for doubles matches. A North/South orientation is desirable for outdoor courts to avoid background glare at dawn or dusk. Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the U.S. Open and Australian Open use hardcourts (though both used grass courts in the past, and the U.S. Open also used clay courts from 1975 through 1977), the French Open is played on clay (though it too was played on grass before 1928), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=116622