{"id":731052,"date":"2026-06-12T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731052\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:35:09","slug":"clay-to-grass-tennis-toughest-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/731052\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay to Grass: Tennis&#8217; Toughest Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grass-court tennis underwent a major change just after the turn of the century.  Historically, serve &amp; volleyers ruled the day, with the likes of Pete Sampras, John McEnroe, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, nine-time champion Martina Navratilova, Jana Novotna and Conchita Martinez rushing the net to claim titles.<\/p>\n<p>Many top-ranked clay-court specialists didn\u2019t even bother to turn up to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Concerned that the greatest showcase of tennis had become one of the least watchable due to a lack of rallies, the All England Club slowed down playing conditions, levelling the field for all game styles.<\/p>\n<p>Although some tennis purists bemoan the demise of serve-and-volley tennis on grass, others believe the slower conditions have been a net positive, producing more entertaining rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grass-court tennis underwent a major change just after the turn of the century. Historically, serve &amp; volleyers ruled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-731052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731052","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=731052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}