The right Hamptons tennis coach, one call
The right tennis coach for your player
A six-year-old with a foam ball, a teenager on the tournament track, an adult coming back after twenty years, a family of four on the court behind the house: tell us once and one certified, background-checked coach who teaches exactly that calls you within one business day. Free for players and parents. No spam.
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Hamptons Ace Tennis finds players and parents in the Hamptons the right tennis coach for the player. Tell us once who is learning, their level and what kind of lessons — private or semi-private, small group, family, a camp or clinic, tournament prep, or adult — anywhere in 9 South Fork towns, Southampton to Montauk, and one certified, background-checked coach who teaches that age and level calls you within one business day. It is free for players and parents; the coach sets the rate and the schedule. We cover 6 kinds of coaching and publish 2026 lesson rates with sources.
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What we cover
Tennis coaching services
Private & Semi-Private Lessons
One-on-one and two-player lessons with a certified coach: the $175–190 Hamptons rate one club publishes, New York and national ranges, where to play without a court, and what RSPA certification means.
Junior Group Lessons & Clinics
Group lessons for children 3–17: the red-orange-green-yellow ball progression, the Town’s youth clinics, the club programs, junior racquet costs by age, and how to tell a good group from a busy one.
Family Lessons
One coach, one court, the whole family: the permits and memberships priced for families, the season, and how a coach runs an hour for three levels at once.
Summer Camps & Clinics
Camp weeks for children: Future Stars’ published 2026 rates in Southampton and East Hampton, the club camps at SPORTIME, Hampton Racquet and Southampton Racquet Club, the add-ons and the discounts.
Tournament Prep & Competitive Training
For juniors and adults who compete: what UTR and NTRP measure, the Suffolk school seasons, where the year-round courts are, what an Elite-certified coach is, and the state of the local calendar.
Adult Lessons & Cardio Tennis
Adult privates, beginner series, Live Ball and Cardio Tennis: what the clubs run from beginner to 4.0-plus, what a lesson and a membership cost in 2026, and how to get back on court without a club.
The short version
Why Hamptons Ace
One coach, the right one
Your player goes to one coach who teaches that age and that level: certified by the RSPA (formerly the USPTA) or the PTR, background-checked, with references from families like yours. The coach who takes a twelve-year-old to her first tournament is not always the one for a five-year-old with a foam ball, or for an adult who last played in college. Nobody else gets your number.
We know the courts
Where a lesson can actually happen is half the problem out here: the public courts and their permits, the clubs and who they let in, the indoor bubbles from November to April, and your own court if you have one. We know which coach teaches where, and we say so before anyone calls you.
Straight rates
We publish 2026 lesson rates for the Hamptons, Long Island and New York, what a summer camp week costs, what a public court costs to book, and what RSPA and PTR certification actually mean, with sources. A parent who knows what a fair rate looks like gets a better coach, not a cheaper one.
Free for players and parents
Participating coaches pay us a referral fee for the introduction. You pay the coach, at their rate, on their schedule.
the Hamptons
Towns we serve
East Hampton, NY
Herrick Park’s three new village courts, the Town’s three courts in Springs, the East Hampton Tennis Club’s fifteen Har-Tru courts on Montauk Highway, East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s bubble on Daniels Hole Road, Hampton Racquet on Buckskill Road, Ross School’s six Hydro Har-Tru courts open to the public, the Maidstone’s tennis house behind its gates, and the private courts behind the privet.
Southampton, NY
The Village’s permitted public courts, the Town’s courts on Majors Path in North Sea, Southampton Racquet Club & Camp with Cliff Drysdale Tennis, the Meadow Club on First Neck Lane behind its gates, Future Stars’ camp courts, and the estate-section courts south of the highway.
Sag Harbor, NY
Mashashimuet Park’s eight Har-Tru courts and two hard courts, the only public hard courts on the fork east of Southampton, run by a nonprofit rather than the Village; village houses too small for a court; and the waterfront houses on the coves with a court behind the hedge.
Bridgehampton, NY
Estate courts on the flat former potato fields south of the highway, a hamlet with no public tennis court of its own, and the Southampton and Sag Harbor courts and clubs within fifteen minutes in either direction.
Montauk, NY
Montauk Downs State Park’s six Har-Tru courts, the Town’s two courts on South Emery Street, the Montauk Tennis Club’s second site at Hither Hills Racquet Club on Montauk Highway, the Montauk Yacht Club’s renovated racquet center with the fork’s only padel courts, and the houses on the hills that mostly do without a court.
Amagansett, NY
SPORTIME Amagansett’s 33 Har-Tru courts and the John McEnroe Tennis Academy on Abrahams Path, the Town’s four public courts on the same road at Lt. Lee Hayes Youth Park and the Abrahams Path facility, the Devon Yacht Club’s courts on the bay behind its gates, and the Further Lane estates with courts of their own.
Wainscott, NY
Private courts on the two-to-five-acre lots between Main Street and the dunes, East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s bubble on Daniels Hole Road at the hamlet line, and no public court of its own; Wainscott Green is a sitting park, not a playing field.
Water Mill, NY
Estate courts on Mecox Bay and the ocean lanes in the most expensive ZIP code on the South Fork, no public court or club that any source places inside the hamlet, and the Majors Path clubs and Southampton Village’s courts a few minutes west.
Sagaponack, NY
Private courts on the estates between Sagg Main Street and the ocean, many of them sunk below grade to satisfy the Village’s setback rules, no public court, and Southampton Village’s courts and the Majors Path clubs a short drive west.
Simple by design
How it works
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Tell us about the lesson
Sixty seconds: what you need, where the court is, and when.
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We find the right coach
One certified, background-checked tennis coach, vetted for this kind of work.
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They call you within 1 business day
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FAQ
Common questions
How much do private tennis lessons cost in the Hamptons?
About $175–190 an hour at the one Hamptons club that publishes a rate: Ross School Tennis Center in East Hampton charges $175 on weekdays and $190 on weekends and holidays in 2026. New York coaches list $65–190 a lesson, with named coaches at $100–150, and the national average is $113 with a $62–204 range (Thumbtack). The other Hamptons clubs quote through booking portals, and the coaches we work with sit around the Ross number in season. Add the court if you have none: Montauk Downs rents Har-Tru at $44 an hour ($24 for members), Southampton Village sells a $25 season permit, and club memberships with court time run from $2,547 (individual) to $6,000+ (family). A summer of twelve weekly lessons at the published rate is about $2,100.
Read the full answer →What age should kids start tennis lessons in the Hamptons?
The programmes here take children from 3: SPORTIME Amagansett’s John McEnroe Tennis Academy groups run for ages 3–18 on the red, orange, green and yellow ball progression, Future Stars’ Little Stars take 3–5 and its Rising Stars 2.5–7, and the Town of East Hampton’s youth clinics run in spring, summer and fall. The equipment agrees: junior racquets run 17–21 inches at ages 3–5 ($35–59), 23 inches at 6–8, 25 inches at 9–10 and 26 inches from 11. What the age should be is a question about the child, not the calendar; we could not read a governing body’s guidance on it, so we do not print a rule. Our advice is a red-ball group for a small child and a private lesson only once the child asks for one.
Read the full answer →Do I need to belong to a club to take tennis lessons in the Hamptons?
No. Montauk Downs State Park rents its six Har-Tru courts to anyone at $44 an hour ($24 for members) from mid-May to October; the Village of Southampton sells a court permit at $25 (individual) or $75 (family); Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park, 8 clay and 2 hard courts, is a nonprofit’s public facility with lessons, clinics and a camp; Ross School Tennis Center’s six Hydro Har-Tru courts are open to the public and under a bubble in winter, with private lessons at $175–190; SPORTIME Amagansett sells non-members clinics, camps and private instruction with a surcharge; and the East Hampton Tennis Club teaches non-members. The Town of East Hampton’s public courts in Springs, Amagansett and Montauk post a rule against unauthorised commercial activity, so a paid lesson there needs the Recreation Department’s say-so. A coach with a court of their own is the other answer.
Read the full answer →Group lessons or private: which is better for my child?
A group for a child who is new, young or there for the fun: the ball comes from a coach, a feeder and other children, the hour is games, and the price is shared — a camp week is $1,045–1,595 in Southampton and $1,095 on the East Hampton tennis track in 2026, and the Town of East Hampton runs youth clinics in spring, summer and fall. A private for a child with a specific stroke to fix, a tournament to prepare for, or a temperament that shrinks in a crowd; the published Hamptons rate is $175–190 an hour against a $113 national average. Most children here do both: a group for the season and a private when the group has found the problem. The good coaches will tell you which the child needs, and we ask them to.
What does a public tennis court cost in the Hamptons?
From nothing published to $44 an hour. Montauk Downs State Park rents its six Har-Tru courts at $44 an hour, $24 for members, from mid-May to October. The Village of Southampton sells a season permit at $25 for an individual and $75 for a family, plus a $150 key-fob deposit refunded if the fob comes back by December 31. The Town of Southampton’s 2026 fee schedule prices basketball and bocce courts at $20 an hour and lights at $40 but has no tennis line at all. The Town of East Hampton publishes no fee or hours for its courts in Springs, Amagansett and Montauk, only rules: one hour when others are waiting, no dogs, no unauthorised commercial activity. Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park, a nonprofit’s 8 clay and 2 hard courts, publishes no fee either.
What do RSPA (formerly USPTA) and PTR certifications mean?
They are the two American coaching credentials. The RSPA, the Racquet Sports Professionals Association, is the former USPTA (its old address now sends you to rspa.net) with 14,000-plus members and four levels: Instructor ($249 to apply plus $235 a year), Professional ($499 plus $335 a year), Elite Professional (an upgrade with on-court testing, $129) and Master Professional (ten or more years as an Elite plus 80 hours of specialty study). RSPA dues include on-court liability insurance for teaching, and its directory at members.rspa.net verifies a coach in a minute. The PTR, the Professional Tennis Registry, is the other body; its site would not load for us, so we do not quote its terms. Neither certification is a background check: we ask every coach for a current screening separately, and the US Center for SafeSport’s core course takes about 90 minutes with a trained status good for 12 months.
How does Hamptons Ace Tennis work?
You tell us about the player once: who is learning, their level, what kind of lessons, when, and where in the Hamptons you are based. We put you in touch with one coach who teaches that age and level in your part of the fork, certified by the RSPA or the PTR and background-checked, and they call you within one business day. From there it is their rate, their schedule and their court, or yours. It is free for players and parents; participating coaches pay us a referral fee for the introduction. We are not a club, a camp or a coaching business, and we do not sell your details; the one coach we send you to is the only one who gets your number. We cover 9 South Fork towns and 6 kinds of coaching.
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