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The task of marking and painting tennis court lines may seem to be complicated and laborious to the novice. However, with the right tools and a few tips the Pros use, you can apply perfectly crisp white lines accurately and easily.

One of your first considerations before starting your resurfacing project has to be whether you will place your new lines precisely over the position of your old ones. This is largely dictated by the amount of patching and the number of color-coats that will be applied over your existing court surface and lines. Unless you plan to resurface your court with at least three coats of color or your old lines are almost completely worn away, they will be slightly visible through the new surface. In this case it is best to place the new lines directly over the old ones. There is a trade-off here. If the old lines were not accurately placed, you will either have to live with new lines that are slightly off or place enough coatings over the old ones so they will not show through the finished surface after you have correctly marked and painted the new lines. You can hide the old lines by rolling two coats of color over them prior to apply the surface coatings.

The best way to make an informed decision about which way you should go with this is to measure your existing lines for accuracy before you even place your order for resurfacing materials. If your lines are fairly close you may choose to paint the new ones in the same position. If they are way off, you will probably want to cover them up well and mark and paint the new ones in the right position. The U.S.T.A. regulation only allows for 1/4" tolerance in all playing lines. It is honestly very rare that we find lines placed this accurately. It is however, not that difficult to achieve this level of accuracy, with a little care.

Below are instructions for measuring and marking tennis court playing lines. The instructions show measurements which represent the center of all lines. Most tape machines, including ours are made to follow a chalk line placed at the center of what will be the new playing lines (see the illustration below). The measurements are for a three inch baseline. If you want a two inch baseline, your doubles line measurement will be 38', 11" (Step 6), and your diagonal measurement will be 52', 10-7/8" (Step 7). If you don't plan to use a tape machine you will find all of the measurements for marking your lines from the outside edge at this link Tennis Court Dimensions.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEASURING AND MARKING TENNIS COURT LINES

STEPS 1 AND 2

STEPS 3 AND 4

STEPS 5 AND 6

STEPS 7 AND 8

STEPS 9 AND 10

STEPS 11 AND 12

Call us or send an email if you have any questions about these instructions:

Phone: 404-915-8352

Email: ess@atlantatennis.com

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