Head of women's tennis at Britain's Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), Nigel Sears, told CNN the slippery nature of the clay surface also set it apart from other types of court.
Recruitment firm Rockpools have been conducting a wide-ranging and rigorous search to fill the nine senior posts - ranging from head of men's and women's tennis to commercial director - that will form the backbone of the LTA's efforts to re-invigorate tennis in Britain.
This isn't to diminish tennis's history as a game with etiquette, and a respect for silence.
Tennis's business turmoil will continue, perhaps with a work stoppage, as some players have hinted at.
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But Falla shone on tennis's biggest stage, mixing slice with power off the backhand and hitting a string of crunching forehand winners.
Effective immediately, professional tennis's summer schedule will become the Emirates Airline U.S. Open Series, with the airline succeeding Japan's Olympus Corp.
Cyprus chose to bring men's tennis players instead of women's players, because "The boys have better potential, " said Dean Georgiou, assistant national coach.
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For the first time since he lost in the second round of Wimbledon last year, Nadal will enter tournaments that include tennis's other titans: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray.
He is only 26, one of tennis's most physical players ever, the maestro of that crazy, loopy Western forehand, an 11-time Grand Slam winner who'd already dropped a massive footprint on the sport.
Djokovic wound up winning, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2, taking his third straight Australian Open, which was a genuinely historic accomplishment unto itself, last done by the Aussie legend Roy Emerson, and never in tennis's Open era.
Eisenbud's pronouncement about Sharapova's future comes as a boost to the women's tennis tour due to Sharapova's enormous star power and fan base, which increased when she won the French Open last June to cap her comeback and become just the 10th woman to capture all four majors.
At the U.S Indoor Tennis Championships , Germany's Sabine Lisicki will face Marina Erakovic of New Zealand in Saturday's final.
These individuals do not have to be brilliant managers themselves, any more than a tennis star's coach needs to be a brilliant tennis player.
Not every nation is moving as quickly as the U.S. Craig Tiley, the head of Tennis Australia's player development and tournament director for the Australian Open, which starts Monday, said he fully expects that private clubs, which run most tournaments for children in Australia, will continue to use a regular ball.
Even in women's tennis, a sport so often dominated by one superior star, it's rare for a player to win all four Grand Slam titles in her career.
In the documentary, McIlroy's tennis star girlfriend, Caroline Wozniacki, also gives a unique insight into the couple's relationship.
It was a schism that led to the formation of the establishment-approved Women's Tennis Association in 1973 -- which will be marked this year by the WTA's "40 Love" commemorative campaign, a celebration of four decades of progress in the women's game.
But in the case of men's professional tennis, Roger Federer, men's professional golf, Tiger Woods and professional football, the New England Patriots and Tom Brady, what you have is week-after-week, month-after-month, and, in fact, year-after-year, these guys who are so far above the competition that it's not a question of who's going to win.
Lu Ang, a commentator at CCTV's tennis and golf channel, credits the record of Chinese players to the revamp of China's sports system, which now encourages more individual initiative and more international competition.
"The current facts being circulated by Mr. Brannan are an overexaggeration and the police report is one-sided in (his) favor, since they failed to get Ms. Capriati's side of the story, " said the statement, which was attributed to the ex-tennis player's legal representative.
It's as if there's a hex on the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis.
Fans of men's tennis found themselves in the odd space of rooting for the favorites.
If Andy produces the tennis he's capable of, we could be in for a sensational two weeks.
To be clear, when I say men's tennis, I am really talking about the interactions of three players.
If there's a model for the era of lower-tension tennis, it's Roger Federer.
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Villa residents have access to the complex's tennis, basketball and squash courts, as well as a pool and sauna.
's tennis center, originally constructed in 1958, is today a public revenue machine.
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