Summer Sports - Tennis


Membership play on Court 2


plus aeration of course. It’s a skill-based, round-the-clock, round-the-calendar job, but obviously there’s a limit to what you can do.” Tony’s brief is a simple one - to maintain and improve surfaces with special attention on the annual international championship. He has one full-time assistant, Milan Stojsavljevic, a young Serb who looks every bit a Djokovic in the making, but is apparently set on a groundsmanship career. He came as a helper for last year’s


tournament and has been here ever since. Formal groundsmanship tuition is on the cards, but he’s learned a lot already under Tony. Tony also gets in a summer temp for the


May to September grass court season, and a dozen or so part timers for the build-up to and during the big tournament in early June. He topdresses each of the courts with 22%


clay loam, and has done regularly in the twenty or so years he’s been at the club.


There’s a natural slope over the whole grass court area, with terracing between the upper and lower court sections. Rainwater moves in one direction, so the five top courts (from 4 to 8) dry out more quickly. The bottom six can be more verdant because of a high water content, but Tony does sometimes have to forbid play on these in very wet conditions. “It’s the bottom courts that hang on to


any excess water and, even in an average summer, play can occasionally be restricted


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