APTA Board approves experimental clinic to explore changes to the game

Bob Brown, reporting for the Rules Committee, requested and obtained approval for an experimental rules clinic at the Fox Meadow Tennis Club in Scarsdale, NY.

The most intriguing proposal involved the modification of the court by placing diagonal screens in the four corners. The Board approved an expenditure of $1,000.00 for this program, which included the manufacture and installation of the temporary screens to experiment with this suggestion.

Other proposed rule change suggestions, including no-let on serve, and different scoring procedures, were also to be given an experimental test.

Source: Platform Tennis News, Mid-Winter 1995