The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has turned to ETC Sports Surfaces, Pitch & Track and sports fencing company Zaun.
Those three firms are supplying ball courts, tennis courts and Multi-Use Games Areas (MUGA) at three military bases around the country. ETC is installing ball courts at MoD bases in Plymouth and Portsmouth, while RAF Alconbury near Huntingdon (pictured below) is getting a MUGA and tennis courts.
The tennis courts for the RAF will be some of the first in the country to employ Zaun’s enhanced tennis mesh. Zaun says that as a UK manufacturer of bespoke tennis mesh has upgraded its machining capability to cut manufacturing timescales and lead times.
Zaun says that its Advantage Tennis mesh eliminates many of the downsides of traditional tennis chain link fencing, which deforms over time and is easy to cut, disfigure and vandalise. The company says that its mesh can withstand heavy use while allowing viewing of the on-court action. It uses a 200mm x 40mm twin wire mesh, that is small enough to prevent tennis balls passing through.
