WTA week of 3/31; Charleston 500 & Bogota 250

spystud

Talk Tennis Guru
Back on the gray/green stuff, one of the weirdest tourneys of the year for TV.

Charleston draw

48-player field, top 16 byes. JPeg/Keys/Qinwen/Navarro lead the way.


Bogota draw

Red clay here, but not much else to say. Bouzkova & Osorio are top two.


Play begins Monday morning for both.
 
I swear it used to be more green than it is these days.

Dart lost in 3.

McNally beat Kalinina.

Polina Kudermetova continues her decent season.
 
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Those are some interesting doubles pairings in that OoP. BMS & Lucie back together, Shnaider/Stearns, Kichenok sisters playing each other.
 
Genuinely shocked that Watson and Shymanovich carry enough clout to earn themselves a better court than the two American players starting at the same time.
 
Those are some interesting doubles pairings in that OoP. BMS & Lucie back together, Shnaider/Stearns, Kichenok sisters playing each other.

Penko and Erin is definitely interesting.
IDK if Gabi is just taking the week off or what.
 
If Watson runs fast enough she might be able to get the same plane home as Dart.

Looks like I was wrong about Bencic. Looks like they took her off one tie and moved the matches around somehow.
 
Given we all play on the gray/green stuff here in Florida, it's a fun tournament for me -- watching tennis on the surface I play on 95% of the time.
Since you play on it, why don't they change to red clay. I have only played a little on green clay. Is it similar to red or completely different?
 
Since you play on it, why don't they change to red clay. I have only played a little on green clay. Is it similar to red or completely different?

It's between hard court and red clay. It's way less powdery and not nearly as messy as red clay -- e.g. it doesn't ruin socks after one match the same way red clay does.

There are tons of green clay (Hartru) clubs in the US Southeast. Theyre all over Florida. They're especially good for Florida where we can get 10 minute rain showers that would make hard courts unplayable, but water drains right through the green clay.

Also it's mined nearby (all green clay is mined in Virginia) and is cheaper to maintain than red clay.

There is a proprietary mix of sizes of the grind that makes it pretty consistent.
 
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