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The competition surface doesn't change for most Olympic sports. A pool's a pool. A track's a track. A wrestling mat's a mat. And so on. Tennis? That's a whole other story, with tournaments contested on clay, hard or grass courts — and now there's a shift for the Paris Games. ▲ Spain's Carlos Alcaraz, on the famous red clay of Roland Garros, plays a shot during last month's French Open final. ▲ Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan hits a forehand shot while playing on the grass of Wimbledon on July 11. For the first time in more than 30 years, the tennis competition at an Olympics will be held on red clay, which means players, who recently made the adjustment from the dirt at the French Open in early June to the grass of Wimbledon in early July, will need to reverse course again in short order. Roland Garros, used for the French Open, hosts Olympic matches starting on July 27 — two weeks after Wimbledon wrapped up with singles titles for Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic and Carl
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