Australian Open Surface

[Caesar]

I've been watching the tournament and I'm just so bored with hardcourts. It was bad enough when it was Rebound Ace, but this Plexicushion (or whatever it's called) is exactly like the US Open surface, and a dozen other ATP events. The Slam has no originality.

Personally I'd love the tournament to go back to grass. Grass is IMO the greatest tennis surface of all, and the grass season is currently the shortest on the tour by a long way. It would also be cooler for the players in the Australian summer. I know maintenance is a bitch, but it's a Grand Slam - spring for some cash. It'd also stop the perennial whinging about the speed and bounce on the surface.

What do you think? Is the surface fine as it is? Would you rather have it played on something else, and if so, what?

 

[hirdy_is_champ]

Didn't they get rid of rebound ace because it was generating too much heat? It didn't need to be that hot and the players would boil. You do have a point but then if it gets changed to grass don't we become the tryhard Wimby? Let's make it clay .

Also this is slightly off topic, but does anyone else think the players have been playing a lot more drop shots this year? Does that mean the surface is a bit on the slow side?

 

[XFactor1979]

something wrong with the surface at hisense arena

wherever that is

 

[puntnut]

Just play on concrete.

 

[Gee Dub]

I think there was an air bubble or something like that under part of the court.