Hot Homes: Anyone for tennis?
There’s nothing like Wimbledon to set a heart a-yearning for one’s own court of courage. Tennis anyone?
According to the International Tennis Federation a tennis court must be 23.77m long and 10.97m wide (for doubles of course), and oddly enough it is made quite clear in the rule book that a court should be flat. Good to know, as I have often considered a concave one a better bet for not losing the balls. How silly do I feel?
Of course if you delve back in time, you can discover the earlier courts were created indoors, where clearly they missed out on the fun of rain delays and high winds. Progress has certainly improved things.
With all of this, and Wimbledon filling our evening TV schedule (fun fact: they’ll go through 52,000 tennis balls during this years tournament with many of those being knicked by fans) combined with the increasing pressure to remain young and healthy well past any reasonable expectation, owning ones own court is a very reasonable thing to aim for in life.
And with that in mind ... ready ball boys? Ready Umpire? Hot Homes asks “Tennis Anyone?”