The Lexus Ilkley Open sits in a pocket of Yorkshire, grass courts laid out beneath the moor.

It is a professional tournament, but the first thing you notice is not the tennis. It is everything arranged around it.

Hospitality terraces. Partner names. The quiet order of a place preparing to be watched.

Professional tennis is usually photographed through the moment of competition.

I was more interested in what surrounds it.

The details that shape the experience before a ball is struck. The relationship between sport, hospitality and the partners whose names sit at the edge of every court.

I wanted to document the environment rather than the result.

I followed the preparation.

Courts marked by hand. A single ball resting on cut grass. The umpire's chair waiting above the baseline.

Sponsor presence is constant but never loud, folded into the surfaces of the place rather than set on top of them.

The work became less about the match and more about the environment built to hold it.