Tennis is presently played on various types of surfaces and the construction of these tennis courts has developed greatly. Various polymer and material technology have developed to better tennis court construction. Initially tennis was played on grass surfaces but it gradually developed and today players have to adjust themselves to the court surface on which they are playing. There are clay surfaces , granular mineral surfaces, hard courts with polymer coatings, plastic modular surfaces and others to select from.
Each court surface has special features of its own and each player has to adapt to the surface they is playing on. International Tennis Federation had launched a Court Surface Classification Scheme in early 2000 and the courts are rated as slow, medium or fast surface. Tennis was from the beginning played on hard surfaces , mainly wood or stone, while grass courts developed later. After the hard courts came the clay courts which became very popular and are preferred even today. There are hard courts which may be porous or non porous . Clay courts are always porous as the main texture of the court has the capacity of holding water. The synthetic acrylic surfaces normally form only the uppermost surfaces of the court while artificial clay and artificial grass is only related to the appearance that the court has though the texture remains the same as clay courts. Courts made of asphalt or concrete are hard and provide more bounce to the ball. Various construction agencies build these courts with great care to help provide an excellent game of tennis.
