Red-brick clay, green grass and chalk-dusted baselines represent the raw materials of the court in three new tennis shirts.

The riddle of the court surface at Indian Wells has a deceptively simple answer: Players get out what they, and the weather, put in.

Haider mentioned that he was part of a group that had built a tennis court inside Baghdad’s Green Zone – the maximum security enclave where most of the senior personnel of the coalition that ...

But there’s no sitting, and no slowing down, on the eight red-and-green tennis courts just behind them. In one corner, two men go at it hammer and tongs in an all-court battle; the sound of ...