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The Madrid Open will be played on blue clay in 2012
Confirmed. The Mutua Madrid Open 2012 will be the first tournament in the history of tennis to be played on blue clay.
A Ion Tiriac, Mutua Madrid Open adviser, you are fulfilling all their dreams since arriving in the Spanish capital.
First wanted the tournament was mixed, then worked for the tour moved to land in a stadium with retractable roof and now, in 2012, the capital of Spain will host the first event in history with colored clay blue.
The problem that had been submitted to Tiriac was that Federer and Nadal, among others, were opposed to innovation and refused to train at the test track.
The U.S. Open 2011, the key:
However, the U.S. Open this year was the key to give the nod to this revolutionary idea. The Big Apple was the place where they met Girgio di Palermo (Europe), Justin Gimelstob (USA) and David Egdes (Asia and Oceania), as representatives of the players, and Mark Webster (Europe), Gavin Forbes (USA) and Charles Smith (Asia and Oceania) leading to the block set of tournaments.
Madrid, through research by Tiriac, presented a technical report showing that the earth was the same, with the advantage that when the ball was blue visible to both athletes and the public following the parties from television.
The leaders of the racquets know that much of the proceeds from the tournament are television rights and if the viewer can better visualize the ball from your television, start to have more audience and raise sponsorship money.
The extracted subsequent vote a majority of votes to Adam Helfant, outgoing president of the ATP, did not even have to vote, but can not, because both players r epresentatives as events are in full agreement with the incursion of blue clay .
The next step for the Madrid Open that runs the legend Manolo Santana is to change all the blue clay tennis courts onsite. For this, first the courts will have to raise them again later to the color blue.
The official announcement is scheduled for next week where Tiriac will begin to see his dream fulfilled after some time said "I am determined to convert the tennis tournament in Madrid in something never seen before: a SuperSlam on blue clay."
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