[SVK]

Now I´m reading an article about this, but it´s in Slovak and my English is pretty poor, and I cann´t translate all of these text, but Manolo Santana (the director of tournament) said, that in future will has these tournament maybe a blue clay as surface
Because blue is the company colour of general sponsor of these tournament
Someone please find a text in English

I don´t know if here is a thread about this

 

[Shvedbarilescu]

Blue clay???!!!! That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages. To tell you the truth, not exactly being a traditionalist, I love it. Completely bonkers but, hey, why not?

 

[No.Brains.Atoll]

Now I´m reading an article about this, but it´is in Slovak and my English is pretty poor, and I cann´t translate all of these text, but Manolo Santana (the director of tournament) said, that in future will has these tournament maybe a blue clay as surface
Because blue is the company colour of general sponsor of these tournament
Someone please find a text in English

I don´t know if here is a thread about this

It could be worse. They could have picked purple...

 

[SVK]

Unikát, turnaj v Madride chce modrú antuku
22.04.2009 16:27 - MADRID
Organizátori spoločného tenisového turnaja ATP mužov a WTA Tour žien Mutua Madrileňa Madrid Open v Madride (9. mája - 18. mája) oznámili, že do budúcnosti uvažujú o zriadení dvorcov s modrou antukou poukazujúcou na firemnú farbu svojho hlavného sponzora.
Jeden takýto kurt skúšobne ponúknu už tento rok. "Keď sa hráči presvedčia, že parametre budú úplne rovnaké ako v prípade červenej antuky, nebude s tým žiaden problém," povedal pre El Periodico de Catalunya riaditeľ podujatia Manolo Santana.

Turnaj vo vlastníctve rumunského manažéra a promotéra Iona Tiriaca sa v minulosti zviditeľnil rôznymi pokusmi o zvýšenie pozornosti. Vari najznámejším je experiment, v rámci ktorého tenisti - ešte na tvrdom povrchu v hale a jesennom termíne - mali ako zberačky modelky. V obrátenom garde to platilo aj na MS WTA Tour.

Zdroj : SITA

Maybe another Slovak or Czech members can translate it:awww:

 

[Tripp]

It could be worse. They could have picked purple...

I would've gone with pink.

 

[spiceboy]

These Madrid attention whores :lol:

What's next? These ballgirl models in trikini or what? :tape:

 

[Dave.]

I'm sure it can be done so that it plays the same as red clay just a different colour. Sounds cool.

I've always thought we need more variety in the surfaces. After 2 months, red clay can begin to look boring and the ball can be difficult to see from some angles. Then there's almost EVERY hardcourt tourney with that boring green/blue scheme. Everywhere looks the same. If this is true, I hope more tournaments do the same thing.

 

[SVK]

Unikát, turnaj v Madride chce modrú antuku
22.04.2009 16:27 - MADRID
Organizátori spoločného tenisového turnaja ATP mužov a WTA Tour žien Mutua Madrileňa Madrid Open v Madride (9. mája - 18. mája) oznámili, že do budúcnosti uvažujú o zriadení dvorcov s modrou antukou poukazujúcou na firemnú farbu svojho hlavného sponzora.
Jeden takýto kurt skúšobne ponúknu už tento rok. "Keď sa hráči presvedčia, že parametre budú úplne rovnaké ako v prípade červenej antuky, nebude s tým žiaden problém," povedal pre El Periodico de Catalunya riaditeľ podujatia Manolo Santana.

Turnaj vo vlastníctve rumunského manažéra a promotéra Iona Tiriaca sa v minulosti zviditeľnil rôznymi pokusmi o zvýšenie pozornosti. Vari najznámejším je experiment, v rámci ktorého tenisti - ešte na tvrdom povrchu v hale a jesennom termíne - mali ako zberačky modelky. V obrátenom garde to platilo aj na MS WTA Tour.

Zdroj : SITA

Maybe another Slovak or Czech members can translate it:awww:

One court with blue clay will try already this year:speakles:

 

[Shvedbarilescu]

I'm sure it can be done so that it plays the same as red clay just a different colour. Sounds cool.

I've always thought we need more variety in the surfaces. After 2 months, red clay can begin to look boring and the ball can be difficult to see from some angles. Then there's almost EVERY hardcourt tourney with that boring green/blue scheme. Everywhere looks the same. If this is true, I hope more tournaments do the same thing.

Totally agree. :yeah:

 

[The Dawntreader]

Love it! Tennis has a tremendous potential for growth and expansion so why not start with the court surfaces. It has to be better than the awfully bland, muddy green clay. Hell even Red clay shows it's 'age' after a while.

 

[~Cherry*Blossom~]

It would look cool, a bit different. But it isn't out of the ordinary looks wise. I mean we have green clay, although the blue clay will still play exactly like the red.

BTW I hope we have more black indoor hard courts. I remember the ATP Masters was played in Australia one year and it looked so cool.

 

[LCS]

As long as RG remains red.

 

[schorsch]

There's a thread on this on MTF. It's Tiriacs idea, because of the sponsor and attention. It does play "the same" they say and Fel.Lopez and Alb.Costa tried it out, but weren't fond of the idea.

It would enhance visibility for the TV viewers though, so...

 

[Matt01]

I've always thought we need more variety in the surfaces. After 2 months, red clay can begin to look boring and the ball can be difficult to see from some angles. Then there's almost EVERY hardcourt tourney with that boring green/blue scheme. Everywhere looks the same. If this is true, I hope more tournaments do the same thing.

I agree with the part about HC but clay? There are only 4-5 big WTA tournaments played on red clay.
We already have green clay, we don't need blue clay IMO.

 

[M.P]

Blue Clay!!! Love it
hope the color same as AO

 

[Lucas_Arg]

Cool!

 

[crazillo]

I've never thought about this idea but it is a pretty cool one.
The should add more variety to surfaces, make them more different in general (Why slow down Wimbledon? Why get rid of indoor carpet?). It would add so much.

 

[jrm]

What sort of blue? I can imagine being very difficult to watch

 

[In The Zone]

Food coloring. Now .. clay coloring! It would be fun to see blue. It just has to play the same as red.

 

[TIEFSEE]

Blue clay ? What's next? Purple?