Carpet court

The International Tennis Federation describes the surface as a "textile or polymeric material supplied in rolls or sheets of finished product".

[4][5] The other type used predominantly for indoor tennis is a textile surface of nylon or rubber matting laid out on a concrete base.

[6] 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.

[citation needed] Carpet courts have been used in venues which are not normally used for tennis or other sports, such as the Royal Albert Hall in London.

[3] ATP spokesman Kris Dent said the most important reason for the change was to standardise indoor competitions to hard courts which he said will reduce the risk of injury.