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Closing Your Clay Courts for the Winter

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 personnel have departed for the season, so it doesn’t always get the attention it probably should. But closing courts down properly will make it...

A Simple Tip for a Playing Safely: Lower Your Touch Points

A Simple Tip for a Playing Safely: Lower Your Touch Points

As we adjust and adapt to the new normal, it’s hard not to think of ways we can get back to playing the game we love, while taking into account social distancing and minimizing touch points. Whether it’s making sure your benches are 6 feet apart or changing sides in a clockwise rotation to align with social distancing, many of...

ClayTech 10 Years In - Finding a Sense of Place

ClayTech 10 Years In - Finding a Sense of Place

Being a part of Har-Tru creates a rather deep, even profound, sense of place in tennis.  Best as we can determine, the first patented, trademarked, and widely-circulated brand in tennis courts was En-Tout-Cas.  Inspired by crushed ant hill courts in South Africa, En-Tout-Cas was the world’s first, fast-drying clay court, constructed by installing a processed, clay surface of crushed brick...

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