Longing for real clay-courts

Just wanted to share my hunger to play on a real clay-court,, u know the red clay they use in all Europe except Sweden (well, Båstad have it, but that´s another story..)

Here we have a brown type of "clay" or dirt, gravel, earth or whatever you can call it. It´s harder to slide on, the bounces are worse, everything is slower on our type of clay-courts..

On those fantastic red clay courts u find in Europe it is so much easier to play good tennis. Sliding is a piece of cake and everything is so much more fun. Just take a look and see how much more fun it looks like when I play in Croatia by the beach or when i play on a windy court here in Sweden,,,,

Porec, Croatia;



Jönköping, Sweden;



At the moment I´m longing extremely much for the Croatian tennis-courts. Hopefully I will go down there week 35/36 to play the Croatian F8 ITF Future in Zagreb and then go to Makarska in Dalmatia for a week of hard work on the red dirt :)