SCHÖPP®-Allround tennis court surface

Like SCHÖPP®Pro-Bounce, SCHÖPP®-Champion is produced from a particularly coarse and robust polyamide yarn with a single filament thickness of 200 dtex. Due to the greater pile height of 6 mm and a lower filament density, the surface is less aggressive than that of the "textile hardcourt". The comfortable SCHÖPP® Champion is therefore primarily aimed at amateur and club players. Its ball bounce is slow, similar to a sand court. Topspin and slice are slightly softened. Thanks to the very robust surface construction, this surface can also be played on with profiled tennis shoes without granules. With the optional granule infill of 400 g/sqm Perfect Glide extruded granules, the SCHÖPP® Champion is reminiscent of a needled nonwoven velour. For several decades, velour needlefelt floor coverings with granulate infill have proven their worth as tennis floor coverings. These surfaces were made of 100 % polypropylene fibre.

The combination of our very comfortable tennis surfaces (point elasticity) with a sprung floor substructure (surface elasticity) certainly offers maximum force reduction! Hall operators can advertise that their choice of sports flooring offers the maximum in terms of joint protection and force reduction! On the other hand, a sprung floor only develops its comfort when there is a lot of movement. Players who only move a little therefore feel no additional comfort! In terms of ball bounce (flatter) and general playing behaviour (e.g. acoustics), sprung floors are a matter of taste. As a rule, however, players quickly get used to the changed playing conditions. A compact sprung floor can be installed on top of the existing tennis floor covering, provided the surface is level. There is no need to remove and dispose of the old floor covering! If the surface needs to be refurbished, the bonded tennis floor can be removed.

The new generation of fabric backing After the carpet raw material has been tufted and dyed in the colour desired by the customer, the tennis floor is given the necessary nap binding and stability by the back coating. With the classic latex coating, the yarn binding and the coating with a textile secondary backing (action back) are achieved using a highly chalk-filled latex dispersion. This makes the carpet relatively heavy and stiff. With this coating technology, the elasticity only comes from the yarn layer, which is also the wear layer. This means that tennis floors with a classic woven backing become harder year after year, particularly in the main running areas that are subject to the most wear. There is no sustainable elastic layer.

In 1999, Schöpp-Sportboden GmbH launched the Slide quality, the first textile tennis floor with a loop structure, an absolute product innovation on the market. The revolutionary advantage of this generation of surfaces was that the larger amount of granules required for playing with profiled tennis shoes is held much better thanks to the pronounced loop structure. The distinctive rubber structure ensures even gliding behaviour when playing with profiled shoes! In 2010, we further developed the structure of our structured loop granule surface. The new herringbone structure Winner is characterised by a particularly coarse structure for an even more sustainable, uniform granule distribution and very sand-like ball bounce properties. With a yarn count of 1,000 g/sqm and 256,000 N/sqm, proven on approx. 1,000 Slide and Winner pitches, SCHÖPP® Winner has an extremely high-quality tuft construction.