No-line tennis court

• US 4,045,022 A
• Filed: 04/23/1975
• Issued: 08/30/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Geoffrey F. Grant, Robert W. Nicks
• Original Assignee: Geoffrey F. Grant, Robert W. Nicks
• Inventors: Nicks, Robert W., Grant, Geoffrey F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oechsle, Anton O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, T.
• Application Number:
  US05/570,727
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• Field of Search: 272/3, 273/29 R, 273/55, 273/31, 273/3, 273/55 R, 273/1.5 R
• US Class Current: 473/474
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 19/02 Shaping of the surface of courts according to the necessities of the different games surface construction E01C

Abstract

A tennis court wherein the different playing zones thereof defined by the rules of tennis are distinguished by color, as opposed to the conventional use of white stripes to define zone boundaries.

Claims

1. A tennis court for playing singles or doubles tennis in which stripes between zones have been eliminated thereby eliminating two closely spaced lines on opposite edges of the stripes, said court comprising a playing surface;

a net dividing said playing surface into a fore court and a far court;

said fore court comprising a pair of quadrilaterally shaped near serving zones of different colors abutted to define a boundary line therebetween, said boundary line being defined only by the zone of one near receiving court being a first color and said other near serving zone being of a different color, an end play zone of a different color than said near serve-receiving zones and defining a laterally extending boundary line by the differences in colors between said end play zone and each of said near serving zones, and an end out of bounds zone of a different color than the color of said end play zone and said colors meeting and defining a laterally extending out of bounds boundary line for said near court;

said far court comprising a pair of quadrilaterally shaped far serving zones each of different colors and abutted to define a boundary line therebetween only by the differences in colors therebetween, an end play zone of a different color than either of said far serve-receiving zones and defining a laterally extending boundary by the differences in colors between said end play zone and each of said far serving zones, and an end out of bound zone of a different color than the color of said end play zone and said colors meeting and defining therebetween a laterally extending out of bounds boundary line for said far court;

a pair of double zones each having a color different than said near court end zone and said far court end zone and different than its abutted serve receiving zones, said colors of said doubles zones and said end zones and abutting serve-receiving zones defining the interior boundary lines for said doubles zones; and

a pair of side out of bound zones extending fore and aft along said outer edges of said double zones and being of a different color than its adjacent doubles zones and meeting and defining by said differences in colors the outer side boundaries of said doubles zone.

2. A tennis court in accordance with claim 1 in which said diagonally related serving zones are of the same color and said near and far end zones are of the same color.

3. A tennis court in accordance with claim 1 in which all of the out of bounds zones are of the same color and in which the colors of the other zones are symmetrical about the center of the tennis court.

4. A tennis court in accordance with claim 1 in which at least a minimum of four different colors are used for said zones.