Mr Tiriac feels the contrast between the blue court and the yellow ball makes the game easier to watch than on red clay, whose lighter patches can obscure sight of the ball.
Basingstoke is situated on a bed of cretaceous upper chalk with small areas of clayey and loamy soil, inset with combined clay and flint patches.
They stand in contrast with Max Scherzer who, Nabozny said, tends to land with such force upon delivering a pitch that "we always keep extra clay" around to patch the holes his spikes carve.
The geology of the borough is unremarkable; the bedrock is mainly composed of sand with patches of clay to the east and west, and superficial deposits (drift) of sand and gravel cover the entire area.
After Fognini had won, the defending women's champion, Francesca Schiavone, took to the same patch of clay and ended up kissing it after beating Jelena Jankovic in three sets, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
There might be a small patch of pure clay, which holds too much water and too little air to support decent plant growth.
Still, at the moment, the island has only one turbine, and it is mounted on a patch of red clay ground in Charleston, steps from the end of Mr. Masucci's waterfront esplanade.
— Less than 15 miles from the state capitol, and just down the road from Wild Bubba's Wild Game Grill, Austin's next big thing is rising from a sprawling patch of rock, clay and shrubs.
Mr. Darke's new book, "The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest" (Timber Press, 2002, $50), not only describes that 20-year study of a patch around Red Clay Creek, but also offers gardeners specific suggestions on how to bring part of their own native woodland into the yard.
The way they are made -- by patching together hand-flattened clay pancakes, punctuated all over by loosely gridded, squarish holes and nipplelike forms scratched into by crisscrossing lines and calligraphic signs -- recalls Process Art.
