Richard Bray runs a Yorkshire based business called “Tennis Courts Yorkshire” and specialises in tennis court painting, tennis court resurfacing, moss killing on tennis courts, tennis court refurbishment and tennis court cleaning.
Being a perfectionist, he has over the years, developed and introduced products and techniques that in many cases, has enabled many old courts to become new again without the cost of resurfacing.
Although Club and Private courts may be of same size, each one is different in their own characteristics, and are treated accordingly, by him personally.
An English tennis court has a macadam surface called “open textured”, which allows the water to drain “through” the surface, rather than “off” it. This open textured surface is made so the “grains” of macadam are only held together by the bitumen around each of those “grains”.
Over the years, the bitumen weathers, and goes hard and brittle. If there is no paint on the court to protect these “grains”, then they will eventually break away from each other. This is called distressing, and is very noticeable in areas that have moss on the court.
