Keeping score of a tennis match can be a little confusing to anyone unfamiliar with the sport. One point counts for 15? Scoring none at all means you get ‘love’? And why’s everyone so obsessed with ‘juice’?
Of all the purchasing decisions you’ll make on your tennis journey, selecting a racket is the biggest… and also the trickiest.
The fastest tennis surface is grass. As a rule. But like most rules there are always exceptions…
The International Tennis Federation, the governing body of world tennis, states that a full size doubles court must consist of a rectangle 78ft long and 36ft wide. A total area of 2,808 sq ft.
That’s 23.77 by 10.97 metres. Or 260.76 sq metres.
But there’s a little more to it than that…
The fastest tennis serve ever recorded was hit by Australia’s Sam Groth in the second round of the Busan Open in 2012. Groth’s shot was clocked at a massive 263 km/h or 163.4 mph.