What’s New at Har-Tru
The Benefits of Utilizing Magnesium Chloride or Calcium Chloride on Clay Courts
Maintaining clay tennis courts is crucial for great gameplay and long-lasting courts. Using specific chemicals is an important part of the maintenance process. Two essential chemicals for clay cour...
"Winter" Season for Clay Court Maintenance in South Florida
This short life-cycle review may help your staff deliver better playing conditions during the busiest time of year. Har-Tru is a very hard angular stone. The sharp edges of the particles can wear...
Closing Your Clay Courts for the Winter
Closing courts down for the winter is an annual procedure for some 60% of the US and all of Canada. Often it happens after members have switched to indoor play and after many pros and maintenance p...
Honey! You shrunk my Drag Brush!
One thing we appreciate at Har-Tru is helpful feedback from the men and women tackling day-to-day maintenance at tennis clubs and on the court. Our associates have years of experience and know abou...
Clay Court Maintenance Budgeting and the Missing Link
There is one resort that rates as my favorite vacation destination. I enjoy treading new ground in my travels so finding one spot that I will readily and longingly return to is a bit out of charac...
5 Players to Watch at the Boar's Head Women's Open: Presented by Har-Tru
Lucie Hradecka – Czech Republic:To my knowledge, Lucie is the only Grand Slam winner in the tournament this year, and she has won 3 of them. Alright, those were in doubles but that is still no sma...
HyQ – The Future of Subsurface Irrigation is Here
Did you know that 3 of every 4 courts that are built today are constructed with sub-surface irrigation? In the 1990’s, the concept of HydroCourt transformed the clay court industry. It was adapted...
USTA National Campus HydroCourts - 1 Year In
At their National Campus, which opened in January of 2017, the USTA chose to install 32 of Har-Tru’s HydroCourts. One year later we were wondering how much the courts were used and how they perfor...
The Benefits of Playing on Clay
To succeed in tennis, players must be able to create and adapt, to attack and defend, to lose an agonizingly long point and still be ready for the next one. These attributes are best learned on clay.