Rebound Ace, the rubberized hardcourt surface used here, is particularly punishing on players' feet, more so when the temperatures rise.
And of the Plexicushion surface used in Melbourne, Curry said, "Their courts are definitely slower".
Instead of the concrete surface used by Vanderbilt, Andrews covered the track's graded and packed soil with six inches of gravel and limestone saturated with tar and oil.
The blue-and-pink artificial surface used by hockey competitors in the London 2012 Olympics, for example, now graces the pitches of Sheffield Hallam University in Yorkshire.
Around 30% of the Earth's useable surface is already covered by pasture land for animals, compared with just 4% of the surface used directly to feed humans.
Venturi tube, short pipe with a constricted inner surface, used to measure fluid flows and as a pump.
Correction: March 23 , 2004 Tuesday A picture of a football on artificial turf on Saturday with an article about a new surface used in city parks carried an erroneous credit.
On Friday, Diggs, who was married last September and lives in Neshanic, N.J., expects an Olympic-size lift from the new $500,000 Garden track, a Mondo surface used at major world meets.
He said he preferred to call his system big-ice hockey and that it was compatible with the new passing rules and the bigger ice surface used in Olympic and international play.
But other threats lurk, including Petra Kvitova, who thrived on the quick indoor surface used last year in Istanbul, defeating Azarenka in the final.
Beating Capriati and Davenport, the world's second- and third-ranked players, in successive matches is bound to suffuse her with confidence as she approaches the Open, where she beat Davenport in the final a year ago on the same kind of asphalt-based surface used here.
