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A living surface: what a grass court asks of the people who maintain it
A grass court is a crop being grown to a specification, and almost everything distinctive about play on it follows from decisions made months before anybody arrives.
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A members club running a global event: the oddest arrangement in sport
One of the largest events in world sport is organised by a private club, which explains a great deal about how it behaves and what it refuses to do.
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Which traditions a tournament keeps and which it quietly drops
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Why grass survived at one tournament and vanished almost everywhere else
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