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A tennis court is 23.77 metres long
It is 8.23 metres wide for singles and 10.97 metres for doubles The net is 1.07 metres high at the posts and dips to 0.914 metres in the middle. The service boxes are 6.4 metres deep, and the baseline sits at the far end of each half. These measurements are set by the International Tennis Federation and apply at every Grand Slam. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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International Tennis Federation
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A tennis court is 23.77 metres long: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- It is 8.23 metres wide for singles and 10.97 metres for doubles. The figure is taken from International Tennis Federation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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