Grass Tennis Court Maintenance (With Graham & Ben)

Grass Tennis Court Maintenance (With Graham & Ben)
In this video I talk to our Groundsmen, Graham an Ben, about how they maintain 10 beautiful grass courts at The Avenue Lawn Tennis Club.
They explain how they became groundsmen, what it takes to keep the lawns looking great and playing well including how often they mow the grass, what length they cut it to, how they paint the lines straight Amongst other things!
Let me know in the comments if you have any questions about the grass courts and I’ll pass them over to Graham and Ben!
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[@pagodacloud2241]

Thank a lot of the knowledge about grass couth. In my country(Thailand)have not many tennis grass court. Hope one day I will build it on my own backyard. All tennis lover welcome 🙏

[@philpinto6473]

Thanks a lot Graham and Ben for all your hard work. I always love playing on our great grass courts. (We also have some of the best artificial clay courts.) Its what makes our club special.

[@666kingdrummer]

One thing i've never understood is, what do they do when the grass gets worn down to the soil? (particularly around the baselines) Do they just leave them? Do they wait until they can over-seed them later? or do they have some special kind of method we've never heard of to deal with it? Because I can't imagine playing in potential divots is very fun.

[@chrisdenman5519]

Very interesting watch. With Al those people wondering about white lines practice makes perfect with those job you cannot learn how to do it until you do it

[@TheTennisMentor]

Absolutely… let’s not forget Dolly Parton, she has helped Ben to master his craft!

[@hleaf]

Great video. Would love to know their take on the supposed speed reductions at Wimbledon, whether the Avenue courts are faster, etc.

[@TheTennisMentor]

It’s a very good question, I’ll ask them their views along with a couple of players that have played at Wimbledon and on our courts for a comparison!

[@chrisdenman5519]

Wimbledon will be slower they use a new fertlizer to reduce mostiure in the grass at queens and Wimbledon why the courts where so slippy this year

[@touchtennis]

Wonderfully informative video n

[@TheTennisMentor]

🙏Thanks… gotta get those neat lawns for epic touchtennis battles!

[@markurbancowboy]

I’m still trying to figure out how grass courts can be played on year round without killing the grass? At Wimbledon for the two week tournament the courts are nothing but dirt after the players get through with them. So are these courts just played on sparingly throughout the year?

[@chrisdenman5519]

No we have a grass court season from April through to September and as we don't move the same as pro's we aren't as aggressive there not as much wear also with Wimbledon those court court 1 and center especially are designed to play the best they can be 2 weeks a year where as the the avenue are designed to play on throughout the summer at the end of the season they get fixed up for the following season where Wimbledon start again from scratch you would probably find that Wimbledon will use r9 all over and not put the r25 on the baseline as the r9 is a better surface.

[@markurbancowboy]

@@chrisdenman5519 Okay, I see. Thanks for that info. 👍

[@TheTennisMentor]

Great answer Chris!

[@chrisdenman5519]

@@TheTennisMentor try to answer it without being to boring it all down to blend of grass for what they use the court for

[@saltytree729]

Court keeper here, in the uk we can have grass courts all year. UFDR grass down to 8-10mm is absolutely fine. Wimbledon is a different beast clegging into the range of concrete lol they would wreck any court luckily they can rip it up and start again every year :)

[@mickeysealtoe9719]

Very lovely like Trump tower in New York. Job well done lads.

[@Ilegator]

I live in Spain so I don't have the luck to be able to play in grass at all. I wish some day I can visit the UK and be able to play in such beautiful grass. How possible is it to rent this kind of courts without being a club member?

[@TheTennisMentor]

There are a few grass courts around that non members can book and use!

[@Ilegator]

@@TheTennisMentor oh, do u know any? I looked for some time but I found barely anything

[@peterbloink8738]

You can find plenty of cheap public grass courts in Australia where certain parts of the country have some of the world's best environmental conditions for growing grass tennis courts; from statistics I found on the internet there's more than 150 clubs that have natural grass and nearly all allow public play for a very small fee. There are about 50 clubs in the south west corner of Western Australia, about 20 clubs in south eastern South Australia, about 20 in southern New South Wales and about 70 in the northern part of Victoria. Most are in relatively small towns and some of them have up to fifty courts. While I cannot confirm the absolute accuracy of the above club statistics, I have been to plenty of the clubs in Victoria and can confirm they are plentiful and are great courts to play on.