The Tennis Surface Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About

What the calendar has actually done

The four majors are still split across three surfaces. The tour around them is not. By the count of any working coach, more than 70 percent of tour-level matches are now played on hard. The clay swing has shrunk into a window. The grass swing has shrunk into a moment.

That is a lot of bodies absorbing a lot of impact on a single surface, week after week.