Why there are no public Tennis court for poor citizens? There are alot of free public basketball courts, and free football ground courts in Europe

[myfavoritesportistennis]

Why there are no public Tennis court for poor citizens?
There are alot of free public basketball courts, or free football ground fields available for people
We need to give more acces to poor people to acces this sport in the cities, but it seems that building a tennis court is more expensive than a basketball court ? no jokes

 

[Quaichang]

Why there are no public Tennis court for poor citizens?
There are alot of free public basketball courts, or free football ground fields available for people
We need to give more acces to poor people to acces this sport in the cities, but it seems that building a tennis court is more expensive than a basketball court ? no jokes

Where do you live? Here in Fla there are plenty of public courts.

 

[myfavoritesportistennis]

Where do you live? Here in Fla there are plenty of public courts.

in Europe every tennis court you have to pay

 

[myfavoritesportistennis]

Növax Dèportovic is going to travel to Indian Wells just so he can be deported again.

At least in India the tennis courts are free for poor people.

 

[Rafa4LifeEver]

At least in India the tennis courts are free for poor people.

Never knew India had any public tennis courts. Didn't find any while I was travelling through that poor nation a few years ago

 

[norcal]

Never knew India had any public tennis courts. Didn't find any while I was travelling through that poor nation a few years ago

Over 50% don't have decent sanitation in their homes but they have tennis courts for the poor!

 

[tennislove00]

There were some public tennis court where i live but fcking pickleballers devastated them and painted their own ****ty lines there.

 

[phl92]

In my city since this winter one hour playtime is 34-40€ .. yeah and 0 free courts. Still Europe > NA in Tennis lol

 

[malbaker86]

in Europe every tennis court you have to pay

oh because here in Jacksonville, FL and there's at least one usable tennis court, that's no more than 15 minutes apart from each other. They're available but tennis just isn't promoted like that

 

[Ronaldo]

Had over 200 free/public courts for a population of less than 400k. Problem is little maintenance by the city the past few years. Dedicated to the pickle lovers now

 

[Razer]

At least in India the tennis courts are free for poor people.

Where are the free tennis courts in India ? There are basketball courts, badminton courts but even they are not free, there are 0 tennis courts that are free in India. You must have visited some other country and mistaken it to be India. Tennis is really expensive business in India, it is not for the hoi polloi. Football grounds are plenty for free, in an overpopulated country finding free tennis court ? LOL, are you kidding me?

 

[graycrait]

Things have not change that much in 90 years. I live in a city of around 200K and we have 8 public access courts:

 

[Vanilla Slice]

Scores of free public tennis courts (and basketball courts, baseball fields, football fields, soccer fields, and more) all across the United States.

Obviously, a good amount aren’t in the best shape due to being publicly funded, but it’s still amazing how much is available here and how many really are in great condition.

 

[Backspin1183]

in Europe every tennis court you have to pay

Where in Europe? I've played on many free public courts (all clay courts though) in Switzerland.

 

[Federev]

Why there are no public Tennis court for poor citizens?
There are alot of free public basketball courts, or free football ground fields available for people
We need to give more acces to poor people to acces this sport in the cities, but it seems that building a tennis court is more expensive than a basketball court ? no jokes

Plenty of free courts in the state of Maryland in the United States.

Right in the city park and other places.

 

[Mustard]

My local tennis court was shut down a few years back, around late 2018.

 

[norcal]

2 brand new courts a 3 minute bike ride from me. Will be there tomorrow at noon.

 

[Indigo]

Even in Serbia the homeland of Novak Djokovic there aren't free tennis courts. Tennis is popular just on TV while in reality there are many more sports that are more playable for the masses requiring far less resources. Even if you make a free tennis court out of good quality asphalt, soon it will be crowded with boys and girls kicking balls instead of using racquets. Tennis is a sport of fine additional equipment that you need to carry which makes all the difference when it comes to free, public and relaxed.

 

[randomtoss]

Where in Europe? I've played on many free public courts (all clay courts though) in Switzerland.

Sorry, but where are these free courts??

 

[accidental]

In England there’s free courts all over the place

 

[insideguy]

I can tell you where I live in the USA there are free or very low costs courts everywhere.

 

[Sudacafan]

Where do you live? Here in Fla there are plenty of public courts.

Here we don’t have many public courts, but we do have lots of poor citizens, who generally don’t have much time to play tennis.

 

[Ronaldo]

Here we don’t have many public courts, but we do have lots of poor citizens, who generally don’t have much time to play tennis.

Recall working FT next to an 81 yo guy last yr. Came back after a Covid leave and was hesitant to ask where he was. Prob not on a tennis court.

 

[Crocodile]

We have had some council areas in Sydney NSW where you could just go on the courts and have a hit but if someone had paid and booked then you had to get off.
The other situation was becoming a member of a district tennis association. Once you did that ( and it wasn’t expensive) you could go into n any time during times the courts were not used for comp and coaching.
There are govt initiatives for healthy recreation participation that can be implemented including free vouchers that low income earners or unemployed could access.
So there are ways you can organise things to get access to tennis courts.

 

[chrischris]

Why there are no public Tennis court for poor citizens?
There are alot of free public basketball courts, or free football ground fields available for people
We need to give more acces to poor people to acces this sport in the cities, but it seems that building a tennis court is more expensive than a basketball court ? no jokes

I think in countries like Scandinavia they do have such courts available.
At least thats what heard.

 

[chrischris]

We have had some council areas in Sydney NSW where you could just go on the courts and have a hit but if someone had paid and booked then you had to get off.
The other situation was becoming a member of a district tennis association. Once you did that ( and it wasn’t expensive) you could go into n any time during times the courts were not used for comp and coaching.
There are govt initiatives for healthy recreation participation that can be implemented including free vouchers that low income earners or unemployed could access.
So there are ways you can organise things to get access to tennis courts.

In the cities or in your prefered outback?

 

[chrischris]

In England there’s free courts all over the place

Thats prolly true, heard that even in the outskirts of London you can find some free courts.. Is that true?

 

[mmk]

We have had some council areas in Sydney NSW where you could just go on the courts and have a hit but if someone had paid and booked then you had to get off.
The other situation was becoming a member of a district tennis association. Once you did that ( and it wasn’t expensive) you could go into n any time during times the courts were not used for comp and coaching.
There are govt initiatives for healthy recreation participation that can be implemented including free vouchers that low income earners or unemployed could access.
So there are ways you can organise things to get access to tennis courts.

I admittedly haven't been everywhere in Sydney, but the only free courts I found were on Garden Island which has limited public access, and one in Woolloomooloo (love the sheep-toilet-cow-toilet sign), and that one you had to go into the community center to borrow the net.