The sliding surfaces used in the past had a number of weak points, which can be attributed to the granules used: Quartz sand is too hard and destroys the base coverings very quickly, while the various rubber granules are too soft and too uneven in shape, so that they in turn are ground up relatively quickly. Both sliding media are controversial due to the dust they generate and bring with them unpleasant side effects such as breathing difficulties, discolouration of clothing and a great deal of cleaning work in the tennis hall and social areas. A new manufacturing process has made significant progress possible: Perfect-Glide tennis granules are not ground from a block of rubber like conventional granules, but are spun into threads using an extruder and then cut to a defined length in a cooling bath. This process enables the production of fine, dust-free extruder micro-granules in a new, optimised lens shape.
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Polymer coating - a pioneering coating technology The comfort version of our tennis floors offers maximum elasticity thanks to a polymer coating with a 400g PES elastic fleece. The 2mm thick elastic fleece layer provides additional playing comfort - you walk like on clouds! However, the special thing about the elastic fleece polymer coating that we have been using since 2011 is not even the elastic fleece, which we have been offering as a comfort backing since 1994, but the completely new coating technology of our polymer coating introduced in 2011.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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