HOW TO CHOOSE

How do I choose an indoor tennis court carpet?

Spoilt for choice: Which carpet is the right one for your members?

What do your members expect from the new playing surface? This is the central question that you should ask yourself before you decide to renew your indoor tennis carpet. The demands on an indoor tennis court surface vary greatly from region to region. It is therefore important to determine which carpet is best suited to your players’ wishes. This will give you an advantage over your indoor tennis court competitors.

The main distinguishing criteria for indoor tennis carpet are:

• playing style
• running comfort
• maintenance and
• the question of whether players wear tennis shoes with smooth outsoles or tread.

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SCHÖPP®-Champion: Coarse-fibre comfort velour with granule option

The comfortable Schöpp®-Champion is primarily intended for hobby and club players. Its ball bounce is slower, similar to a clay court. Top spin and slice are slightly softened. Thanks to the very robust product construction, this carpet can also be played on with tennis shoes that have an outsole tread, without the need for granules.
Like the Schöpp®-ProBounce, the 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 millimetres and a lower filament density, the surface of the carpet is less athletic than that of the “textile hardcourt”.
With the optional granule scattering of 400 grams of extrusion granules Perfect Glide per square metre, the Schöpp®-Champion resembles the sliding surface of needle-punch velour carpets, but as a polyamide carpet it is more robust and above all much more comfortable.

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SCHÖPP®-Allround: Our all-rounder

We have fitted the structured velour Schöpp®-Allround on over 2,000 courts since 1994. Since then, it has been equally appreciated by players of all levels due to its versatility and its very “honest” ball bouncing characteristics. It can be played on with or without our extrusion granules Perfect-Glide – preferably with tennis shoes that have a smooth outsole. A pile weight of 1,000 grams per square metre has proven it worth. If desired, the yarn input can also be increased to 1,250 or 1,400 g/m². The fabric surface is thus even more compact and durable. It is particularly important here that the higher yarn input weight leads to a higher pile density (up to 300,000 piles/m²), but only marginally to a higher pile height. This is because a yarn layer that is too soft would negatively impact the ball bouncing properties.

If you are looking for:
a high-quality tennis carpet for all requirements with excellent and durable playing comfort and at the same time perfect ball bounce.

Our recommendation:
Our structured velour Allround 1000/1250 Comfort with elastic fleece polymer coating.

Play a test game on this all-rounder –When and where?
We will be happy to arrange an appointment for you in one of our reference properties.

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SCHÖPP®-Winner: The sliding surface

In 1999, Schöpp-Sportboden GmbH launched the “Slide” quality – the first textile tennis court with a loop structure – an absolute product innovation.
The more pronounced loop structure gave this generation of carpets a revolutionary advantage over the structured velour carpets that had been common until then because it was much better at retaining the larger quantity of granule infill, which is necessary when playing with tennis shoes with a deeper tread.

We have subsequently continued to develop our successful Schöpp®-Slide product. The new fishbone structure “Winner” is characterised by a particularly coarse structure for an even longer lasting, more consistent granule distribution. With ball bounce properties similar to a clay court and a smooth gliding response when wearing tennis shoes with a deeper tread, it is impressive right down the line. In combination with our dust and odour-free extrusion granule Perfect Glide, this clean granule carpet also has great advantages over needle fleece carpets with a conventional rubber granulate.
The Schöpp®-Winner is also available with the yarn input weights 1000 or 1200 g/m² and in the product variants Standard and Comfort.

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SCHÖPP®-Proflex® Elite: Elastic hardcourt on polyurethane basis

Climate

Polymer coating – a pioneering and climate-friendly coating technology

In contrast to the usual latex coating, the yarn bonding and back lamination of our polymer coating is not achieved with a highly chalk-filled latex dispersion, but with a hotmelt polymer.
As this production process does not require any complex drying, the energy required for polymer coating is much lower than for classic latex coating.
In comparison, better integration and bonding of the materials is achieved, resulting in a significantly higher quality and durability of the carpet.

Polymer-coated carpets are also around 40 percent lighter thanks to the absence of fillers and latex that can become brittle, therefore remaining elastic and retaining its athletic functionality in the long term.
As this carpet consists only of pure plastic polymers, it can be fed back into a high-quality recycling process for later disposal when necessary.

The benefits are …

• the excellent thread binding and the stability of the cut edge
• the resulting extended lifespan of the tennis court carpet
• a highly elastic, filler-free polymer coating
• an optional elastic fleece backing, and thus particularly good damping properties
• the sustainability of the crude oil-based polyamide raw material

Product variants – Standard and Comfort
We produce our textile tennis carpets either in the Standard variation with a fabric-back and polymer coating, or in the Comfort variation with an elastic fleece polymer coating.
Due to the changing demands on the comfort of a tennis carpet, we recommend opting for the Comfort variant with the elastic fleece backing for a sustainable elasticity that lasts the entire lifespan of the tennis carpet.

Accessories

Indoor tennis court accessories: more than carpets

Ball curtains
Since 1999 we have been producing ball catching curtains, which are perfectly matched in colour to the two-tone tennis court surface, therefore also giving an old indoor tennis court a new look. The ball curtains are made in-house of highquality polyester fabric (fire class B1). The curtains are suspended from the steel cable with carabiner hooks. In addition to their functionality and attractive appearance, ball curtains also offer benefits in terms of acoustics and thermal insulation. On request, curtains without pleats can also be supplied.
SCHÖPP® Ball-catching curtains – an improvement for every indoor tennis court.

Accessories and Maintenance
As part of the refurbishment of your indoor tennis courts, we will be happy to supply you with a complete package of additional accessories, such as partition nets, tennis nets and net systems, benches, umpire chairs, easy-to-clean runner rugs, and maintenance equipment. In addition to correct use, regular maintenance is crucial for ensuring the longevity of your new tennis carpet.

Tennis granules Perfect-Glide – the revolutionary development in the granule sector
The tennis granule Perfect-Glide is not ground from a rubber block like conventional rubber granulate, but extruded into 1 millimetre filaments and then cut to a predefined length.
This process enables the production of dust-free extrusion granule in optimised lentil shape.

The advantageous properties of our Perfect-Glide speak for themselves:

• Dust-free and odourless
• Optimum gliding behaviour with low granule quantity
• No soiling of clothing or club rooms and spaces
• Low maintenance

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