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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Korty_power_game.jpg/220px-Korty_power_game.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Korty_power_game.jpg/330px-Korty_power_game.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Korty_power_game.jpg/440px-Korty_power_game.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="364" /></a><figcaption>A carpet court in Kraków, Poland</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>carpet court</b> is a type of <a href="/wiki/Tennis_court" title="Tennis court">tennis court</a>. The <a href="/wiki/International_Tennis_Federation" title="International Tennis Federation">International Tennis Federation</a> describes the surface as a "textile or polymeric material supplied in rolls or sheets of finished product".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is one of the fastest court types, second only to <a href="/wiki/Grass_court" title="Grass court">grass courts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag needs to be fact-checked with the cited source(s). (March 2020)">verification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The use of carpet courts in <a href="/wiki/ATP_Tour" title="ATP Tour">ATP Tour</a> competitions ended in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-mar_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In women's tennis, no <a href="/wiki/WTA_Tour" title="WTA Tour">WTA Tour</a> tournaments have used carpet courts since the last edition of the <a href="/wiki/Tournoi_de_Qu%C3%A9bec" title="Tournoi de Québec">Tournoi de Québec</a> in 2018. ATP Challenger and ITF circuit level tournaments with carpet courts continue to exist up to the present (2024). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types">Types</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carpet_court&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are two types of carpet court. The most common outdoor version consists of <a href="/wiki/Artificial_turf" title="Artificial turf">artificial turf</a> with a sand in-fill. This type of carpet court became popular in the 1980s in British and Asian tennis clubs for recreational play as they were easier and cheaper to maintain than grass courts.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The other type used predominantly for indoor tennis is a textile surface of nylon or rubber matting laid out on a concrete base.<sup id="cite_ref-itf_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-itf-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They came in many kinds of synthetic materials, from different sources, which led to the tennis tournaments and organizers (WTA/ATP) typically identifying and labelling carpet courts by their brand names such as Greenset, Supreme or Taraflex.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Carpet courts have been used in venues which are not normally used for tennis or other sports, such as the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> in London.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Players usually approach such courts as they would a grass court due to both being similarly fast surfaces.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_tournaments">Professional tournaments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carpet_court&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Professional tournaments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/ATP_Finals" title="ATP Finals">ATP Finals</a>, <a href="/wiki/WCT_Finals" title="WCT Finals">WCT Finals</a>, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Pro_Indoor" title="U.S. Pro Indoor">U.S. Pro Indoor</a>, <a href="/wiki/ECC_Antwerp" title="ECC Antwerp">ECC Antwerp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kremlin_Cup" title="Kremlin Cup">Kremlin Cup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris_Masters" title="Paris Masters">Paris Masters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zagreb_Indoors" title="Zagreb Indoors">Zagreb Indoors</a> tournaments were all once played on carpet.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, the governing body for men's professional tennis, the <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Tennis_Professionals" title="Association of Tennis Professionals">Association of Tennis Professionals</a> (ATP), decided to end the use of carpet courts in top-tier tournaments.<sup id="cite_ref-mar_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ATP spokesman Kris Dent said the most important reason for the change was to standardise indoor competitions to <a href="/wiki/Hard_court" class="mw-redirect" title="Hard court">hard courts</a> which he said will reduce the risk of injury.<sup id="cite_ref-mar_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A number of players, including <a href="/wiki/Mario_An%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Mario Ančić">Mario Ančić</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jo-Wilfried_Tsonga" title="Jo-Wilfried Tsonga">Jo-Wilfried Tsonga</a>, criticised the move stating that professional tennis needed carpet courts for players to develop their ability for playing on fast courts.<sup id="cite_ref-mar_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mar-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The last event played on carpet courts on the <a href="/wiki/WTA_Tour" title="WTA Tour">WTA Tour</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tournoi_de_Qu%C3%A9bec" title="Tournoi de Québec">Tournoi de Québec</a>, ended after the 2018 edition. In the <a href="/wiki/2019_WTA_125K_series" title="2019 WTA 125K series">2019 WTA 125K series</a>, the only tournament played on carpet was the <a href="/wiki/Taipei_Open" title="Taipei Open">Taipei Open</a>. 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