Our Tennis Thread

[jayl0ve]

Yeah, basically you have 1 hour to play if people are waiting. People sometimes exceed that though, and it's incredibly annoying....I'm not exactly proud of this ( ), but one time I was waiting for almost 2 hours for a court, and this group of like 6 teenage kids were using the court (3 ON A SIDE!!! ). I calmly informed them that there's a 1 hour time limit, which they basically ignored.

10 minutes later I drove by very slowly and threw 6 or so eggs over the fence at them and told them to, and I quote, 'Stay the f**k off my court'.

So yeah to answer your questions, some problems do arise.

[VillaJ100]

I'm lucky I have grass, clay and concrete courts, even a insane indoor wood one all within a 10 min drive. they all cost about £5 a hour to hire, the grass more so in the summer with Wimbledon and stuff.

[jayl0ve]

That's awesome, I've wanted to play on wood ever since the 'Stavgard' court in TS2.

What's it like, bounce/speed wise?? It seems like it would be a high-bouncing, fast court. If that makes sense.

[VillaJ100]

The grass courts (not my pic)

The clay one (both small)

and ironically enough, my local pub but sadly the court is gone now.

[VillaJ100]

It was ridiculous, every ball was ankle height and stupidly fast. the only way it would even be feasible to play on for me would be with wooden rackets. The last i heard they covered the wood over with some acrylic carpet which must still be super fast.

[TomBs]

Guess that would be annoying to play on yes.
Would like to play on a real grass court though. Grew up on hardcourt, and we had some artificial grass courts too, and now I'm playing on clay courts, and in winter indoor on carpet.

Got the Wilson [K]Six.one 95. It's a nice racket, but I still suck
Wearing Babolat shoes, they're really great.

[jayl0ve]

It was ridiculous, every ball was ankle height and stupidly fast. the only way it would even be feasible to play on for me would be with wooden rackets. The last i heard they covered the wood over with some acrylic carpet which must still be super fast.

Ahh I see...I just figured it would have a high bounce because a lot of wood gymnasium style floors have sticky varnish (or whatever it's called) on them, but I can also see how it might be like playing on ice.

[Coolhand Texas]

My local tennis club in good ole Kentucky has 10 outdoor courts. Play for free and no time limit.

If you want to use lights it's 4 dollars an hour

We also have 4 indoor courts but those cost

[djarvik]

Anywhere from $40 to $120 an hour for indoor courts here in NYC. Public courts are there, but not free...you have to have a membership with City Parks organization to play and it cost about 150$ for a season. May-Sep.

Of course not all public courts are being "watched" over....meaning no one ever checks your permit....but these tends to be the crappier ones.

[jayl0ve]

Woah! That's some serious BS!

[djarvik]

yep.

Here is a rate sheet from one Club in Brooklyn:

http://www.prospectpark.org/media/file/ ... 010-11.pdf


If you want Manhattan....just multiply by 2

[VillaJ100]

The best courts in my city are private clubs, which cost anywhere from £60 per month for a leisure club like David Lloyd, to the edgbaston priory club which costs around £800 a year, but is amazing for that money, some similar clubs charge 5 or 10 times that amount. Its where the women play the AEGON classic some lovely courts.

[coke4]

Not aware of any public courts in Dublin.

Im a member of two clubs, a grass club which is about 250 euro a year but you need to be accepted by the board, and a gym which has 7 indoor hard courts which are pretty quick, thats around 500 a year.
I used to be a member of David Lloyd which had indoor carpet and outdoor mock grass, they had around 30 courts, but it was around 1200 a year

[jayl0ve]

no offense seriously, but this lack of public courts has gotta be a factor in why british tennis is in the state that it's in.

[coke4]

no offense seriously, but this lack of public courts has gotta be a factor in why british tennis is in the state that it's in.

Dublin isnt britain.

However you are right