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Hallelujah ! Jeff Sackman at Tennis Abstract responds to reader demands, er, requests with a table of court speed for every tour-level event from the last 52 weeks.
Jeff uses aces as the metric of speed, a measure supported by many others since that includes the influence of balls, temperature, humidity ya da ya da, not just the abrasion and resilience of the surface. Ratings go from the Turn Tour Finals, which Jeff ranks as the fastest at 1.61 to Umag, which at 0.54 is the slowest. Average is 1.
The US Open, which many characterize as 'semi-fast" is slower than the average ATP court at 1.14.
My regular haunt, BNP Paribas, aka Indian Wells's hard courts are slower than most clay courts -- as I've claimed repeatedly. So there. Miami, which many claim is even slower than IW is significantly faster -- both the false claim and the result are caused by high humidity.
The table is on his site at the link.
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Jeff uses aces as the metric of speed, a measure supported by many others since that includes the influence of balls, temperature, humidity ya da ya da, not just the abrasion and resilience of the surface. Ratings go from the Turn Tour Finals, which Jeff ranks as the fastest at 1.61 to Umag, which at 0.54 is the slowest. Average is 1.
The US Open, which many characterize as 'semi-fast" is slower than the average ATP court at 1.14.
My regular haunt, BNP Paribas, aka Indian Wells's hard courts are slower than most clay courts -- as I've claimed repeatedly. So there. Miami, which many claim is even slower than IW is significantly faster -- both the false claim and the result are caused by high humidity.
The table is on his site at the link.
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