Where the rich folks play

These are the tennis courts we use at the Cranwell resort.  They're nice, covered with this fancy-schmancy granular, faux-clay substrate.   It's like sand: artificial powdered earth that has a nice deadening effect on the bounce of the ball, causing it to hang a bit after it strikes the ground, giving older sinews and bones at least some chance to hustle over to it and give it a whack.  The downside? Well, like anything grainy, running around on it and having speedy tennis ball ricochet off of it deform the surface and after an hour or so, every bounce becomes an adventure.  It does give you a built-in excuse when you screw up, though, so that's nice.