Paris Olympics tennis players’ dirty little secret is that clay gets everywhere and is hard to clean

AP Tennis Writer

PARIS (AP) — Tennis players competing on the kind of red clay courts being used at the Paris Olympics this week know that it’s pretty much impossible to keep clothes — especially white socks — and footwear clean while running around on what’s really dust from crushed red bricks. Some will just throw away stuff. Others are resigned to never being able to get the dirt out completely. Some actually enjoy it. Then there are those who have secret recipes for cleaning their outfits. Tokyo Games bronze medalist Elina Svitolina throws items in water with baking soda and vinegar and lets them soak for an hour, before then putting them in a regular laundry load.