Summer Sports - Tennis “
We don’t do this job for recognition - we do it because we love sport and we want to produce surfaces that people can enjoy playing on, and can enjoy watching top sport
may not necessarily understand why we are doing something! The other decision we have to take, when
watering the courts, is how long after we have watered do we wait before the covers are pulled on, and whether we inflate them or not. This relates to how we manage the soil to keep the moisture levels just right. If we pull the covers on and leave them flat, moisture will be held at the surface. If we pull them on and inflate, we are then keeping the cover off of the surface and allowing the moisture to move down through the profile. This all effects the following day’s play, as we need the courts to
Grounds team receiving a bottle of champagne from champion Angelique Kerber l-r: Steven Whitfield, John Lawrence, Angelique Kerber, David Lawrence, Sue Lawrence and Anthony Knight
be dry enough for play to commence, at 9.30am for practice and 11.00am for matches. If covers are to be inflated, then we also
have to stay up to ensure they remain settled. A slight change in the wind strength or direction can cause a significant amount of damage! Hence the length of the hours we do. In the run up to the tournament, and the week of, we regularly work over one- hundred hours a week, but that is what is required in order to get the courts just right. The hours are certainly long, and
extremely tiring (we wore pedometers during the tournament this year and we
were regularly hitting 30km walked and run in a day), however it is all worthwhile when the stands are full, there are players on court, and the eyes of the world are on the court - or ideally more specifically the players on it!
We don’t do this job for recognition - we do it because we love sport and we want to produce surfaces that people can enjoy playing on, and can enjoy watching top sport being played on. Ideally, we will never be seen and never be mentioned because, generally, that means we have done our job well, there have been no problems with the courts and that everyone is happy with how
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