The dimensions of a tennis court Standards

Tennis is gaining popularity. It is played by professional athletes, amateurs, adults and children. What should be the size of a tennis court? This will be discussed.

What is a tennis court

To play in a tennis court requires quite large. Unfortunately, the bulk of gardeners are not able to build a court in his dacha.

An area of ​​600 m ² does not allow to place a full tennis court, even for amateur players.

But there is a solution. Tennis - the collective game. It involved at least 2 players. Therefore, using the adjacent to the garden community area, you can build an excellent tennis court, which will allow you to organize spend their leisure time all members of the team.

What should be the size of a tennis court in meters? Golf is a flat spot size of 18 by 36 meters, or 648 m ².

Construction of a tennis court

For the construction of the court should:

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• sketch of the tennis court;
• the presence of a suitable place;
• drain pipes;
• sand, clay, fertile soil, gravel, artificial turf grass;
• tennis nets, poles for its fastening;
• the ability to install anti-wind protection;
• rollers for tamping and leveling the ground.

produce grading in the selected area. The slope of the site should be no more than 1 degree. Along the perimeter and the diagonals are placed drainage pipe to provide flow of water when the coating is a herbaceous or clay. When installing flooring solid (concrete or asphalt) drainage diagonal is not set.

The prepared pad poured layer of gravel, which line the rink. Next, a layer of poured sand which also tamped. On top of this pillow is poured soil mixture consisting of sand, clay and fertile soil. Proportions thus should be the same. Primer leveled, its level is checked compass construction, all of compacted and then watered for shrinkage. The base dries 3 days. After this is done the preliminary site layout. On the basis of its established pillars for the grid and the support for the anti-wind protection. The ground is laid artificial turf grass.

The size of a tennis court

On artificial turf tennis markup applied field. Court to make doubles and a single. Each type is characterized by its size courts.

In order to save a building material and the marking area for different types of games are doing in the same field. What should be the size of a tennis court? Standard - is 18 by 36 meters. But when combined field doubles and a single game, it is worth noting the main difference between them - the field for a single game is less in width. The dimensions of the court in doubles:

• length - 23, 75 m;
• width - 18, 23 m;
• the end line from the feed point - 5, 5 m;
• grid height in the center of the field from ground level - 0, 914 m;
• away from the side pillars pad line - 0, 914 m;
• the central dividing line - 11, 875 m.

The size of a tennis court in a single game:

• the central dividing line - 4 165 m;
• field width - 8 m 23

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All the other indicators of the size of the court is the same as in the doubles.

Care tennis court

Features care court depends on its cover. Most require complex manipulation primer. Him after every game you need to align, pour water, to carry out reconstruction work after the winter period.

Courts with hard surface (concrete, asphalt, wood, plastic) need only clean water after rain and autumn leaves. Least effort required fields with artificial grass. They only need to be cleaned by a rake autumn leaves, water in this case goes through drainage.