French Open 2025: What makes a good player from Klei-Court?

The LTA said in 2024 that there were approximately 1,300 clay courts in Great Britain. That is approximately 5% of the total number of courts of 23,000.

About 60% of the courts in Spain – one of the leading countries on the surface – are clay.

The National Tennis Center has Four Clay Courts” external And the administrative body is “new partnerships” with Klei-Court facilities in Barcelona and Girona, where young players can go for camps and training sessions.

The British Davis Cup captain Leon Smith has Previously told BBC Radio 5 Live that maintaining a clay court can be expensive for clubs – and is not helped by the British weather.

The British number five Francesca Jones said that there has traditionally been a “slight restraint” for young British players to travel abroad to Clay Academies.

That is a route that Murray took, who played clay tournaments in Europe from the age of 12 in Junior and moves to the Spain’s Sanchez-Casal Academy in 15 years old.

Draper may not be clay like his favorite surface, but he has also had experience on it from a young age and says BBC Sport: “I have not played any loads on it professionally with the ATP.

But when I was younger, whether it was in the UK or abroad, I played European events, I always did well on the clay.

“I always thought I was a player who could play well on all surfaces.”