How to Use clay court in a Sentence

clay court

noun

• Djokovic is one of two players to beat him on the clay court.
  — Jimmy Hascup, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2020
• Olympic tennis will take place on the clay courts of Roland Garros, home of the French Open.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 24 July 2024
• All 14 clay courts and four hard courts have been resurfaced by ProWorld.
  — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• The matches will be played on an outdoor clay court in Zadar.
  — Brian Mahoney, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
• The official poster for the 2020 French Open shows a view of a sunlit clay court through a dense ring of green leaves.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2020
• The Spaniard topped Djokovic with an ace and dropped to his knees on the famed red-clay court, pumping his arms in victory.
  — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
• Rafael Nadal and clay court tennis are a match made in greatness heaven.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 June 2018
• Because Rafa is, of course, the best player ever to play tennis on clay courts.
  — Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 19 May 2018
• The 28-year-old British star has quietly put in practice hours and matches to lift her clay court game.
  — Vanja Lakic, SI.com, 5 June 2019
• He's won 10 French Opens and is considered the best clay court player in the sport's history.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018
• Halep excels at this type of play, more frequently seen on clay courts than grass, and soon enough was on her way.
  — Howard Fendrich, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2019
• But there were no tumbles or stumbles on Monday on the most important clay court in the world.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2021
• There were more than 50 of the top college tennis coaches and scouts surveying the young talent on the clay courts.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 2 July 2019
• Rublev first threw his racket to the clay court at the end of the first set and was subsequently given a warning by the umpire.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 June 2024
• Add that to the Nadal clay court statistic comedy routine!
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 9 May 2018
• Racing Club de France, a historic sporting club dating back to the late 1800s, offers hard and clay courts.
  — Nick Pachelli, Vogue, 12 June 2024
• At the French Open and other clay court tournaments, the ball leaves a mark that umpires often inspect.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 10 July 2023
• Hawk-Eye still isn’t used to check calls in clay court matches, with umpires instead coming down to check the ball marks themselves.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• As more than a thousand tennis clubs popped up across the country, all with clay courts, Spanish players learnt to adapt to the slower pace of play.
  — Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 15 July 2024
• Halep excels at this type of play, more frequently seen on clay courts than grass, and soon enough was on her way to her fifth Grand Slam final.
  — Howard Fendrich, The Denver Post, 11 July 2019
• These best-selling tennis balls are best for hard courts, but can also be used on indoor courts, as well as clay courts.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2024
• Seems to raise all sorts of interesting questions, including the use of Hawk-Eye on clay courts.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• His mischievous and adorable children, Jonathas, 8, and João Vitor, 10, are scheduled for a tennis lesson at the club’s clay courts.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Jan. 2018
• That final was played outside, in a rainstorm, on a clay court that probably would have been better served that day as a slip-and-slide.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Tennibot can collect up to 80 balls, works on hard and clay courts and operates off a battery that can last up to five hours.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Fish suggested a clay court would be easier to maintain and more helpful to Cousins’ game.
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 22 Aug. 2020
• The sport — and the familiarity of the 78-foot rectangular clay court — has been her saving grace.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• Around the same time, the French Open made its courts harder and faster, which basically caused the extinction of the clay court specialist who won in Paris but nowhere else.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• Over the weekend, guests played tennis on the resort’s immaculate green clay courts.
  — Julia Echikson, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Speaking of consistency…I have to yet to hear a clear and convincing reason for why the balls are different from one clay court event to the next.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 9 June 2019

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024