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Grass will be a welcome sight for Americans

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

For American tennis players, the emerald lawns of the All England Club beckon. After a spring of grinding on hostile clay courts in picturesque European cities -- the American men, you may remember, went a horrific 0-for-9 in the first round at Roland Garros -- they finally have arrived at Wimbledon's greener pastures. Analyst Mary Carillo has always been a proponent of clay, the surface that reveals an athlete's every flaw. "Clay teaches you how to manage a court, how to finish a point, not j ...

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