It was the first time that the Belarusian and the world No.4 from Poland have met on clay but like the previous four occasions the pair have met this year Azarenka came out on top.
Georgians traditionally serve wine in bowls made of clay -- much like the buried, clay kvevri urns in which Georgian wine is traditionally made.
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But on a high friction surface like clay, the ball will grip more and change the trajectory of the ball quite significantly.
Your defense was flying all over the place like Clay Matthews' hair.
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McKenna Plant Hire (Oxford) Ltd wants to dump 340, 000 cubic metres (about 520, 000 tonnes) of inert building waste like clay, in Woodeaton Quarry.
Any Americans still uncomfortable on the red clay will feel more at home: For the first time, Madrid will be using blue clay, much like the color of the U.S. Open courts.
To make a package out of ceramics you have to fire it, like a clay pot, at an extremely high temperature.
Nadal was playing on red clay, which for him is like wrapping himself in a childhood blanket.
The slower pace and higher bounce also meant big servers like Sampras were negated on clay and certain types of players were better suited to it, Sears said.
To witness the back-and-forth of their flirtation is like watching Nadal versus Federer on clay.
The perfect shotgun, any bird hunter or clay shooter will tell you, should feel like an extension of your own arms.
The plants and dirt will capture rainfall and shield the house from heat, rather than absorbing it like an asphalt shingle or a clay tile.
Each piece then gets hand trimmed or pinched into shape, he says, showing how a thin tube of clay will be shaped into candelabra that looks like a long, thin piece of coral.
On the counter it rests like a block of sculptor's clay, running smooth and firm under the fingers.
Between the outdoor pools and fountains and treatments like the Mountain Spirit Purification with its clay body mask and juniper-sage massage with hot stones, it delivered all the relaxation this resort promised.
Even though apps, mobile phones and 3D printing have made things easier for us and gives more people access to activities they might not normally engage in, what happens to our psyche when we no longer know what it feels like to sculpt an object, feel clay between our fingers or touch objects to acknowledge our existence.
In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.
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"I feel like this whole tournament I've only played clay-court players from my first round to now, and everyone was also smaller than me, " the 31-year-old said after Saturday's 7-5 6-2 win over Italian seventh seed Sara Errani -- beaten by Sharapova in last season's French Open final.
If you dig your foot into the surface and remove some of the clay, you will notice that the underlying surface is a hard rubber-like mat.
The unique narrative approach also gives away some secrets, like the way the groundskeeper at Fenway cuts the grass or packs the clay in the batters' box differently for particular Sox hitters.
But even as that celebration ensues, family scion William Clay Ford Jr. urgently needs to map out what the next few decades might look like.
Nadal, like Novak Djokovic, couldn't wait to get away from the controversial blue clay at the Caja Magica but Federer has made the best of the situation and thrashed Janko Tipsarevic 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday in a one-sided semifinal.
What has brought problems to Federer, and to other greats like Pete Sampras and Boris Becker -- who never won a French Open, is the clay surface on which it is contested.
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