There's a really interesting 'long read' article in the Guardian about groudsmanship and the art of creating the perfect grass pitch/court whatever. Completely mind-blowing the level of detail and the change in the business in recent years. Most is about football. But part covers Wimbledon too and I thought maybe a thread for all things technical wouldn't be a bad idea:
"Stubley studied at Myerscough College, where he was taught that plants must always be healthy, well watered and well fed. Then you come into tennis and you roll the bejeezus out of it, you stop feeding it and you stop watering it, he told me. To produce the best grass court, Stubley must find the balance between life and death. By the time you start the championships, the plant is on a slow keel to dying because youre starving it, he said. But the surface cant be too dry at the start, because otherwise the plant will be dead before you get to the second week. The courts end the fortnight closer to 300 gravities, which has no more give than a tarmac road."
