How clean is tennis?

ugo.santalucia

I was looking at a photo of Coco Gauff at Roland Garros and then compared it with a photo from last year... basically she doubled in size... OK, she's at an age where one still develops, but boy, she must eat a lot of protein!!

shirley_basso

https://tennishasadopingproblemblog.wordpress.com/

ddraver

I'm not a huge fan of it to be honest, but the lines that come out are, almost word for word, the same as cycling in the 90s...

The levels of delusion are high.

Ben6899

It isn't clean. Not remotely.

photonic69

It depends where they shove those balls

MattFalle

Its going through what cycling and football and rugby union did a few years ago.

so, not very clean.

Dorset_Boy

A couple of years ago Djokovic said he hadn't had an OOC test for over 12 months.
Serena ran to her panic room when the testers called.

They play for 3-5 hours in 40+ degree heat (courtside temp) with virtually no drop off in intensity.

Like football and rugby, if you don't look for the problem you can claim you don't have the problem.

Very dirty if you ask me.

elbowloh

I suspect hard courts (US open and Aus) are the cleanest. Grass (Wimbledon) is next, but grass stains can be a bugger to get out of whites. Clay (French) is clearly the dirtiest, the granules will get everywhere, in your shoes, down your pants, in your hair etc.