We are well into the Clay court season now, the switch to clay requires the biggest adjustments out of all the surfaces for the player’s but it is nowhere near as hard as it used to be.

To the people who are new to the game you may not know of the extremes between the clay court specialists,who relied on patience and movement at the back of the court, to the serve-and-volley experts on grass courts.

The former world number one Marcelo Rios famously said during Wimbledon 1997 that grass was for “cows and soccer”. He only played at SW19 three times in his 10-year career.