Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s tennis courts in every public park and anyone and everyone can play it.

Not really.

+1. In Bethesda maybe.

There are six PUBLIC tennis courts at Langley HS available for everyone after school and all days long in the summer. The same at Yorktown HS in Arlington.

There are so many public tennis courts in Fairfax County parks, like Linway Terrace, Dolley Madison public library, Lewwinsville Park, etc...

Point proven. These locations are high income areas.

Anonymous wrote:Narratives.

Any sport is expensive is you get involved enough. Otherwise, stereotypes keep urban kids playing basketball and suburban kids playing tennis.

Less about logic and more about stigma, as many seemingly race irrelevant things are.

Oops *if

Narratives.

Any sport is expensive is you get involved enough. Otherwise, stereotypes keep urban kids playing basketball and suburban kids playing tennis.

Less about logic and more about stigma, as many seemingly race irrelevant things are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s tennis courts in every public park and anyone and everyone can play it.

Not really.

+1. In Bethesda maybe.

There are six PUBLIC tennis courts at Langley HS available for everyone after school and all days long in the summer. The same at Yorktown HS in Arlington.

There are so many public tennis courts in Fairfax County parks, like Linway Terrace, Dolley Madison public library, Lewwinsville Park, etc...

I can sign find a league and my kid up for rec soccer in about 10 minutes. How do I sign my kid up to play tennis (against opponents, not just me) absent a county club membership?

Where are you located? There are definitely options in MD

I can sign find a league and my kid up for rec soccer in about 10 minutes. How do I sign my kid up to play tennis (against opponents, not just me) absent a county club membership?

To become truly good at it, you need to have private lessons/better quality lessons than what you would find at a rec level.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There’s tennis courts in every public park and anyone and everyone can play it.

Not really.

+1. In Bethesda maybe.

Anonymous wrote:There’s tennis courts in every public park and anyone and everyone can play it.

Not really.

Anonymous wrote:There’s tennis courts in every public park and anyone and everyone can play it.

A basketball court and tennis court are about same size.

Tennis court can accommodate 4 players. Basketball holds about a dozen.

You need a $15 dollar ball that lasts for years for one; the other you need 2-4 $20-40 appropriately sized racquets, which are expensive to restring and tennis balls which have a shelf life of weeks after opened so must be replaced regularly.

Most tennis courts around here are reserved on nice days, for a fee.

The snappy tennis sweaters.

Private country club lessons.

A sport that you can play for a lifetime, like golf.

An acceptable leisure activity, like sailing - a niche sport for the elite and at our FCPS HS, the elite Asians.

Anonymous wrote:it's not really intuitive in the way that basketball and soccer are. there's a technique to it and to get that technique you generally need some sort of formalized instruction.

So tired of hearing this nonsense from people who know nothing about basketball. Any 3 year old can hit a tennis ball. No one can take a step on the basketball court without violating one or more rules without training. Just because you don't know anything about a sport, don't assume it's "intuitive."

Anonymous wrote:Most low income, urban areas tend to be densely populated, so space comes at a premium. You can either put up a tennis court and have, at most, four people playing doubles, or you can put up a basketball court or patch of grass for soccer,football, or kickball.

Hmm interesting because two top players came from Compton and harlem

Nice courts are expensive and limited. Also it is 1 on 1 and lessons are expensive.

Most low income, urban areas tend to be densely populated, so space comes at a premium. You can either put up a tennis court and have, at most, four people playing doubles, or you can put up a basketball court or patch of grass for soccer,football, or kickball.