{"id":253143,"date":"2025-10-31T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253143\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T21:30:09","slug":"bublik-the-paris-masters-court-is-slower-than-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253143\/","title":{"rendered":"Bublik : \u201cThe Paris Masters court is slower than clay\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rolex Paris Masters<\/a>, relocated to a new venue this year, is featuring one of the slowest indoor hard courts Alexander Bublik<\/a> says he\u2019s ever played on \u2013 so slow, he believes it plays slower than clay.<\/p>\n

Bublik, a semifinalist in Paris<\/a> (Saturday against Auger-Aliassime<\/a>), offered a detailed assessment of the court conditions, centering his observations on how the surface changes the ball\u2019s movement after it bounces.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s definitely slower than clay, in my opinion,\u201d Bublik said. The difference, he explained, comes down to the \u201cwhip\u201d effect players rely on for power and spin, which the new surface appears to absorb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cOn clay you have a higher bounce\u2026 and on clay the ball has more speed after it bounces. So after the bounce, it can generate the spin. You can move an opponent back with using a topspin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Missing the \u2018Whip\u2019 of CLAY<\/p>\n

That dynamic, Bublik noted, is missing in the Paris venue, diminishing the effectiveness of powerful strokes and kick serves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do a great topspin or a great kick serve, you don\u2019t have this whip that puts opponent back on their back foot. So that\u2019s the biggest difference.\u201d<\/p>\n


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The Kazakh concluded that the change makes this court stand out: \u201cThat\u2019s why the indoor hard, especially this one, is one of the slowest I have played, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tournament\u2019s move to the new venue, the Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena, has been marked by a significant reduction in court speed, according to official data, which shows a drop of over 25% from last year\u2019s unusually fast surface. Bublik\u2019s comments reinforce the notion that players accustomed to the traditionally quick Paris courts are having to adjust their tactics to accommodate the far slower conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rolex Paris Masters, relocated to a new venue this year, is featuring one of the slowest indoor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-253143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}