Which surface is closer to clay?

ninman

Hall of Fame

• May 9, 2012

• #1

Now that we have blue clay I wanted to open the debate. Which surface do you think plays more like Clay, Madrid, Australian Open, French Open or Wimbledon?

What do you think?

 

Cup8489

G.O.A.T.

• May 9, 2012

• #2

What? Obviously the French Open...

 

ninman

Hall of Fame

• May 9, 2012

• #3

That's the joke....

 

syke

Professional

• May 9, 2012

• #4

ninman said:

That's the joke....

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You have just wasted one minute of my life. Wtf?

 

ninman

Hall of Fame

• May 9, 2012

• #5

It was a serious thread, I just added the French Open option as a joke. But I genuinely wanted to talk about the homogenisation of surfaces.

 

r2473

G.O.A.T.

• May 9, 2012

• #6

Surfaces change every year so we only really know after the tournament is done and we have a winner.

For example:

Nadal wins Wimbledon = Wimbledon is playing like clay
Federer wins Wimbledon = Wimbledon is playing like a real grass court
Djokovic wins Wimbledon = Wimbledon is playing somewhere in between grass and clay
Anyone else wins Wimbledon = incomprehensible. Can't happen.

You can apply the same logic to the others. Hope this helps.

 

ninman

Hall of Fame

• May 9, 2012

• #7

What about when Federer won the French, did people say it was playing like grass?

 

r2473

G.O.A.T.

• May 9, 2012

• #8

ninman said:

What about when Federer won the French, did people say it was playing like grass?

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No. Hardcourt.

Are you new here?

 

ninman

Hall of Fame

• May 9, 2012

• #9

No, but I don't visit often.

 

r2473

G.O.A.T.

• May 9, 2012

• #10

OK. Well, last year all the clay surfaces were faster. Thus Nadal had a problem beating Djokovic.

This year, it looks like its back to slow clay as Nadal is winning.

Madrid looks pretty fast, but we won't know until after Sunday. Stay tuned.........

 

Bender

G.O.A.T.

• May 9, 2012

• #11

r2473 said:

Surfaces change every year so we only really know after the tournament is done and we have a winner.

For example:

Nadal wins Wimbledon = Wimbledon is playing like clay
Federer wins Wimbledon = Wimbledon is playing like a real grass court
Djokovic wins Wimbledon = Wimbledon is playing somewhere in between grass and clay
Anyone else wins Wimbledon = incomprehensible. Can't happen.

You can apply the same logic to the others. Hope this helps.

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This, pretty much.

But in all seriousness Wimbledon surface speed is terrible

 

r2473

G.O.A.T.

• May 10, 2012

• #12

I can't say for sure until Sunday afternoon what surface is being used in Madrid, but I can already conclude that it isn't clay.

Stay tuned......