ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 5月30日 03時02分

@ラファエル・ナダル just may be The King of Clay. The #tennis star recently set a record by winning 50 consecutive sets on the surface. He is once again the favorite to win this year’s #FrenchOpen, the only one of professional tennis’s 4 grand slams played on clay courts. But the people who know @rolandgarros’s crimson grounds most intimately rarely pick up rackets. They’re the tournament’s groundskeepers. “They know the feeling of sliding. They know the feeling of playing,” Fabien Tiquet, a towering groundskeeper, says of the competitors. “What happens underneath, they don’t know.” He and his colleagues are responsible for 32 courts. “No court is the same,” Fabien said. “You must consider the whole context, the whole climate.” Each one takes 2 or 3 days to prepare. In the process, the courts transform from blinding white to the iconic red. The clay is actually fine ground brick. During the frenetic preparation process, it covers the courts — and everything else. Workers use shovels to fling the clay across the court’s surface, then compress the layers with several different types of rollers. They use a hose to wet the courts, and then do it all over again. It’s repetitive, backbreaking work. @kiehart documented it while on #nytassignment this month. Visit the link in our profile to see more photos. #? #?

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