court tennis

But while grass court tennis is considered traditional — the sport was originally called lawn tennis, after all — Wimbledon’s offering of indoor grass court tennis is newfangled.

The Earl of Wessex, the youngest of Queen Elizabeth II’s children, arrived at Georgian Court University in Lakewood on Thursday to play court tennis, a predecessor of modern tennis.

And on Tuesday, Prince Edward told us that he’s combining diplomacy and pleasure while touring America — one of his goals is to play a handful of “court tennis” clubs on this side of the pond.

Nick Kyrgios is playing the sort of lights-out grass‑court tennis that should put him in the conversation when Wimbledon starts on Monday week – if he can hold body and soul together.

That growing clarity was in evidence on Sunday; Keys, who has often been impatient during the long rallies that clay court tennis demands, limited herself to only 17 unforced errors, compared with 27 for Buzarnescu.