Would it be better to have grass season before clay season ?

[VladBurn]

The tennis season starts with hard court ( medium-slow ) tournaments, gets slower when the clay season comes and then after the slowest ( clay ) season, the players have to get adjusted to the fastest - grass season. Once the grass season is over, they need to prepare themselves for the faster hard court season ( faster comparing to the medium-slow HC tournaments in the beginning of the season ).

Now Im not really sure how doable would be to make Wimbledon and the rest grass tournaments before the clay season, but if this is possible, it would allow the players to start the tour with hard court tournaments ( which are still fast comparing to slow clay ) and then proceed to even faster grass tournaments without having to get adjusted from fast to slow surface and then to the fastest one.

Maybe the weather simply wouldnt allow this change ( in case it rains much more in the UK/ Germany/ Netherlands in May-June compared to July ), Im not really familiar with those countries' weather, so please pardon me if what Im saying is just too non-sense.

 

[VexlanderPrime]

Less hardcourt, more grass, specifically in the US. But it'll never happen b.c. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[K-H]

Sounds like a plan. When shall we get started with this then.

 

[VladBurn]

Sounds like a plan. When shall we get started with this then.

the sooner the better, right ?

 

[Semidios]

Better get rid off the whole grass season and play two slams on clay and two slams on hard court as it's meant to be nowdays.

 

[Duncan Donuts]

There needs to be more separation between grass and clay.

Maybe French Open beginning and ending in May.
Wimbledon beginning and ending in July.

 

[Mainad]

Summer is the time for grass. Scheduling it before the clay season would be too risky given the greater likelihood of rain in the spring (grass of course being the most sensitive of the 3 surfaces to moisture). It would be more logical to schedule the clay season after the grass.

Unthinkable for Wimbledon or any of the grass events to be played at any time other than at the height of summer!

 

[Mainad]

Better get rid off the whole grass season and play two slams on clay and two slams on hard court as it's meant to be nowdays.

What a truly horrible thought!!!

 

[Deleted member 735320]

The thing to remember is that "summer" is a relative term, relative to the hemisphere one is in. As late as 1987 just 30 years ago there were TWO majors played on grass. There are ways to make this work. It is crazy that the ITF and the ATP and WTA couldn't figure this out and come up with surface specific seasons leading up to each major. The grass season should be expanded because then players like Muller would be able to pad their results like some of the clay players do. I don't particularly enjoy grass tennis but as long as Wimbledon is played on grass, they need to have more tournaments played on the surface.

One thing they may also want to examine is how much do the increased state of injuries for players have in common with the new balls, strings and rackets? Might the equipment now be adding to the injuries. Is the human body at risk to be hurt in 2017 in ways that the players with the wood rackets in the 60s were not?

 

[aldeayeah]

Reduced sunlight times and increased rainfall would make it impossible to run Wimbledon the way it is.

 

[LETitBE]

Reduced sunlight times and increased rainfall would make it impossible to run Wimbledon the way it is.

2017......rooves.....lights.....we are not in the stone age anymore

 

[aldeayeah]

Sure, that's great for the stadium courts, but there's a big bunch of smaller courts that aren't ever getting a cover.

 

[MajesticMoose]

Better get rid off the whole grass season and play two slams on clay and two slams on hard court as it's meant to be nowdays.

 

[noobforehand20]

i think it is impossible for the brits to get the courts ready by april if that were the case, its a yearly process

 

[Sartorius]

Shrink the post-USO calendar a little, put Wimbledon a week later, and add a masters tournament before it and afer Queens/Halle. Probably needs a ton of rescheduling but I would think it's doable.

 

[MasterZeb]

Problem with both surfaces is that they're not really indoor surfaces and are really meant to be played in summer. Hard courts you can play at any time of the year. And grass especially has gotta be in the height of summer, as is now. I can tell you Spring time in Britain is miserable