APTA Court Grants proving successful in growing the game

The APTA is seeking new worthy platform tennis court projects from around the country to help fund – Are you interested?

Mindful that a stated mission of the APTA is to grow the great sport of platform tennis, as well as the quandary that it’s hard to justify courts if you don’t yet have players, and yet it’s hard to attract new players if you don’t have courts for them to play on, the Board of Directors of the APTA decided several years ago to experiment with a Grant Program. The concept was and is to solicit proposals for grants to help build publicly accessible platform tennis courts in areas where the sport has great growth potential.

The first grant was made in 2006 toward a pair of courts at the Chapel Hill Tennis Club. At the initiative of Rich Green, a NY transplant to this tennis rich area of North Carolina, this small and inexpensive tennis and swim club embraced Rich’s vision that they build courts and a program, as an experiment in adding a new wintertime activity. Three years later, by virtually any measure, the grant has proven wildly successful. Most encouraging, and as a direct result of Rich’s efforts, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has just built 3 courts on their campus.[enlarge image to read full report]