11.   Then the clay season begins.

12.   First though, he must toil his way through the summer clay court season -- his least favourite surface.

13.   I have always had problems at the start of the clay court season.

14.   But after losing his first match of the clay court season at Monte Carlo last month, the top seed cannot have drawn a more unwelcome opponent here.

15.   They should have one ball for the whole of the clay court season.

16.   Venus Williams begins her European clay court season this week with a bid to win her third Betty Barclay Cup title in Hamburg.

17.   Sampras was devastated by the discovery that coach Tim Gullikson has a brain tumor, and his clay court season was marred by an ankle injury.