ROLAND GARROS, PARIS — After six days of tennis in the French capital, a new tournament started at Roland Garros. The players and the venue are the same. It’s still the French Open. But as the rain ...

The more tennis courts, the better. However, there is a case to be made for a clay surface over a hard one — specifically green clay tennis courts. A recent study highlights how green clay courts ...

One of the most important tournaments in world tennis will start on Sunday, as the 127th edition of the French Open will take place in Paris. It’s the second major of the season after the Australian ...

It used to be that the French Open was the drama-filled finale to the European clay-court season. But that was before Rafael Nadal emerged and the French became the thoroughly anticlimactic conclusion ...

The original tennis court surface is being played less and less on the ATP and WTA Tours. Serve On SI Serena Williams’ former coach explains the advantage Roger Federer always had on his serve While ...

Green clay tennis courts are able to absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide via enhanced rock weathering, according to a new study in Applied Geochemistry. Enhanced rock weathering—the process of ...

A tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of ...

Learning and growing up on clay courts maybe be one of the best assertions the USTA has made, getting their protégés to spend quality time thinking and playing on the crushed Red Brick or Har-Tru ...

PARIS — For decades, the red clay that makes the French Open unique among Grand Slams has served as a gorgeous canvas for the game’s most artful practitioners, looking more like velvet than crushed ...