List of real tennis organizations
Real tennis organizations: a list of associations and clubs for the sport of real tennis.
General
Australia
Four courts are in use.
Governing body:
Sporting clubs with own courts:
- Ballarat Tennis Club, Ballarat, Victoria: 1 court in use
- Hobart Real Tennis Club, Hobart, Tasmania: 1 court in use
- Royal Melbourne Tennis Club, Melbourne, Victoria: 2 courts in use
Other Sporting clubs:
- Glenfern Retreat Real Tennis, Romsey, Victoria
- Sydney Real Tennis Club, Sydney, New South Wales:[3] court planned
- Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) Real Tennis Section, Melbourne, Victoria
- Real Tennis Perth, Perth, Western Australia
France
Three real tennis courts are in use; four trinquet courts are in use in south-west France.
Governing body:
- Comité Français de Courte-Paume (French Real Tennis Committee)
Sporting clubs:
- Jeu de paume et squash Bordeaux-Mérignac, Bordeaux: 1 court in use
- Cercle du jeu de paume de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau: 1 court in use
- Société sportive du jeu de paume et de racquets, Paris: 1 court in use
- Trinquet St. André, Bayonne: 1 trinquet court in use
- Trinquet Gartxot, La Bastide-Clairence: 1 trinquet court in use
- Association du jeu de paume de Navarre, Parc Beaumont, Pau: 1 trinquet court in use
- Trinquet Dongaitz, Urrugne: 1 trinquet court in use
There is also a plan to restore a court currently in an unplayable condition in Chinon: [4]
Ireland
No courts are in use, but two exist in unplayable condition, at Dublin University and on Lambay Island.
Governing body:
Netherlands
No courts are in use.
Governing body:
- Nederlandse Real Tennis Bond (Netherlands Real Tennis Association)
Sporting clubs:
- Real Tennis Club Huis ter Kleef, Haarlem: historic court in need of renovation
United Kingdom
Twenty-seven courts are in use. There is a court in unplayable condition in Troon, Scotland.
Governing body:
Sporting clubs:
- Bristol and Bath Tennis Club, Bristol: 1 court in use
- Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Club, Falkland, Fife, Scotland: 1 quarré court in use
- Hardwick House, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: 1 court in use
- Hatfield House Tennis Club, Hatfield, Hertfordshire: 1 court in use
- Hyde Tennis Club, Bridport, Dorset: 1 court in use
- Jesmond Dene Tennis Club, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland: 1 court in use
- Leamington Tennis Court Club, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: 1 court in use
- Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club, Manchester, Greater Manchester: 1 court in use
- Marylebone Cricket Club, St John's Wood, London: 1 court in use
- Moreton Morrell Tennis Court Club, Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire: 1 court in use
- Newmarket and Suffolk Real Tennis Club, Newmarket, Suffolk: 1 court in use
- Petworth House Real Tennis Club, Petworth, Sussex: 1 court in use
- Prested Hall Racket Club, Feering, Essex: 2 courts in use
- Queen's Club, West Kensington, London: 2 courts in use
- Royal County of Berkshire Real Tennis Club, Holyport, Berkshire: 1 court in use
- Royal Tennis Court, Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London: 1 court in use
- Seacourt Tennis Club, Hayling Island, Hampshire: 1 court in use
Private estate:
- The Fairlawne Estate, Plaxtol, Kent: 1 court (private)
Schools and Colleges with own courts:
- Cambridge University Real Tennis Club, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: 2 courts in use
- Canford School, Wimborne Minster, Dorset: 1 court in use
- Middlesex University Real Tennis Club, Hendon, London: 1 court in use
- Oratory Tennis Club, Reading, Berkshire: 1 court in use
- Oxford University Real Tennis Club, Oxford, Oxfordshire: 1 court in use
- Radley College, Radley, Oxfordshire: 1 court in use
- Wellington College Real Tennis Club, Crowthorne, Berkshire: 1 court in use
Schools and Colleges which play at other courts:
- University of Exeter Real Tennis and Rackets Club, Exeter, Devon (currently plays at Hyde Tennis Club)
- University of Durham Real Tennis Club, Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne (currently plays at Jesmond Dene Tennis Club)
- Newcastle University Real Tennis Club, Newcastle upon Tyne (currently plays at Jesmond Dene Tennis Club)
- University of St. Andrews Real Tennis Club (currently plays at Falkland Palace Royal Tennis Club)
United States
Ten courts are in use.
Governing body:
- United States Court Tennis Association and U.S. Court Tennis Preservation Foundation
Sporting clubs:
- Aiken Tennis Club, Aiken, South Carolina: 1 court in use
- Tennis and Racquet Club, Boston, Massachusetts: 1 court in use
- Racquet Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: 1 court in use
- International Tennis Club of Washington, McLean, Virginia: 1 court in use
- National Tennis Club, Newport, Rhode Island: 1 court in use
- Racquet and Tennis Club, New York, New York: 2 courts in restricted use
- Racquet Club of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1 court in use
- Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo, New York: 1 court in use
Private estates:
- Greentree. Manhasset, New York: court not in use
Schools and Colleges:
- Georgian Court University. Lakewood, New Jersey: 1 court in use
References
McNicoll, Kathryn (2005). Real Tennis, pp. 38–39. Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-7478-0610-1.