# Private Tennis Courts in New York City

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 1, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-tennis-courts-in-new-york-city/587529 "2011-07-01T17:18:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Morris\_Cody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Morris\_Cody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morris_Cody)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-tennis-courts-in-new-york-city/587529/1 "2011-07-01T17:18:05Z")

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I’d like to take up tennis and am looking for a place to take lessons in New York City. Preferably, it’d be a private club where it’s possible to reserve a court to play on—I know there are a lot of public courts around the city, but I don’t want to have to hang out and wait for one to become available. I’ve tried searching, but my Google-fu is failing me and I’m getting too much tennis-related noise. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-tennis-courts-in-new-york-city/587529/2 "2011-07-01T22:48:11Z")

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I’ve never played there, but a friend of mine took lessons at [Midtown Tennis Club](http://www.midtowntennis.com/) and loved it.

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**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-tennis-courts-in-new-york-city/587529/3 "2011-07-02T00:19:31Z")

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I know nothing about tennis, but I found this list:

> **[tennisnyc.com](http://www.tennisnyc.com/clubs.htm)**
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> This domain may be for sale!

In Forest Hills in Queens there’s the [West Side Tennis Club](http://www.foresthillstennis.com/), oddly, not on that list. It’s more of a full on country club in terms of membership fees (there’s also a members-only pool, clubhouse and restaurant) but they have 38 courts and the US Open was held there, once upon a time. It’s a very quick walk from the Forest Hills Long Island Railroad stop, which is ~20 minutes from Penn.

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**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/private-tennis-courts-in-new-york-city/587529/4 "2011-07-02T00:22:55Z")

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By the way, the public courts in Prospect Park and Central Park, both take court reservations:  
[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub\_permits\_and\_applications/tennis\_permits\_renewals.html#reservations](http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_permits_and_applications/tennis_permits_renewals.html#reservations)