An example court pace rating for each surface may be 23 for a clay court, 35 for a hard court and 46 for a grass court.

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The latter property includes a grass tennis court, formal gardens that a former horticulturalist of the New York Botanical Gardens maintains, a carriage house, two greenhouses, a 75-foot-long heated pool with a hot tub, a pool house and an apple orchard.

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Most tried to court it and reflect its will by painting themselves as a grass-roots uprising against big government.

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For the league, the TV deal is the latest step that began with grass roots programs like court construction and clinics administered by former players like A.C.

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In the other men's grass-court tournament being played, second seed Novak Djokovic is through to the final in Halle after a 7-6 6-4 victory over Belgian Olivier Rochus.

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