Wimbledon forced to defend “dangerous” courts

[Dan Lobb]

HEAR, HEAR! Yup! Baseball, football, soccer, golf are all played on grass! Tennis players and club owners are generally too cheap and shortsighted to support grass courts--it's a shame most players will not experience the joy of playing barefoot on grass courts.

Good point. Baseball and football tried playing on rubber/cement surfaces for some years, but the rash of leg/knee injuries caused the team owners to demand a return to grass, with its spongier undersurface. Tennis should follow these other sports and return to grass.

 

[Bartelby]

Baseball and football are body-contact sports whereas tennis is not. The bottom line usually rules, in any event, so the best argument for grass is its environmental friendliness.

 

[Crazy Finn]

Baseball and football are body-contact sports whereas tennis is not. The bottom line usually rules, in any event, so the best argument for grass is its environmental friendliness.

Baseball is a contact sport??

Also, Baseball has bunches of problems, but after decades of screwing around with artificial surfaces, it's mostly gone back to grass.

 

[Bartelby]

It's kind of funny because I can see why I said this. There are always shots of batters and fielders colliding. This is totally prohibited in cricket. Even basketball is body contact compared to netball.

Baseball is a contact sport??

Also, Baseball has bunches of problems, but after decades of screwing around with artificial surfaces, it's mostly gone back to grass.

 

[Crazy Finn]

It's kind of funny because I can see why I said this. There are always shots of batters and fielders colliding. This is totally prohibited in cricket. Even basketball is body contact compared to netball.

Yeah. In the old days, baserunners would occasionally try to run over catchers. Back in the day usually catchers were generally pretty stout and had protective accessories, but sometimes they got hurt. Also, baserunners would try to slide at the player at second base to make his throw difficult. However, these occurrences were like once a month or maybe once every couple months, if that (consider they play 24-ish games a month). They were notable, but rare.

Now there are rules about these things because stars were injured in these plays.

There's more contact in 5 minutes of a football (as in association football, not American) match than in two dozen baseball games.

 

[Dan Lobb]

Yeah. In the old days, baserunners would occasionally try to run over catchers. Back in the day usually catchers were generally pretty stout and had protective accessories, but sometimes they got hurt. Also, baserunners would try to slide at the player at second base to make his throw difficult. However, these occurrences were like once a month or maybe once every couple months, if that (consider they play 24-ish games a month). They were notable, but rare.

Now there are rules about these things because stars were injured in these plays.

There's more contact in 5 minutes of a football (as in association football, not American) match than in two dozen baseball games.

Both types of football are on grass, of course. Some American and Canadian football was played on rubber/cement for some years, but the injury rates were much higher, so they have returned to grass.
In tennis the injuries are caused by the hard rubber surface which grabs the footwear soles and jerks the knee joints and ankles around. A chronic source of injury for many tennis players.

 

[Dedans Penthouse]

No, but

investigate

which lab it has come from;

and, sue in the mean time.

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