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Summer Camps & Clinics in Water Mill, NY
Tennis camp for a Water Mill child costs $1,045–1,595 a week at Future Stars’ Southampton site or $1,095 on its East Hampton tennis track in 2026, with the club camps at SPORTIME, Hampton Racquet and Southampton Racquet Club quoting by request; peak season is May 25 to September 7. Tell us the child’s age and level and where in Water Mill you are based; one certified, background-checked coach calls within one business day.
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Camp weeks for Water Mill families are a drive to the clubs that run them, and the choice is which weeks and which programme. We put Water Mill parents in touch with one certified, background-checked coach who knows the camps here and runs the clinics between them.
Summer camps in Water Mill: what's different here
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.
Water Mill sits between the two big camp sites, Amagansett and Southampton, so the choice for a Water Mill family is the programme, not the drive.
Water Mill has no public tennis court that the Town of Southampton’s Water Mill page or any other source names, and no club we could place inside the hamlet line; Southampton Racquet Club and Future Stars on Majors Path are addressed “Southampton” and sit a few minutes west. The hamlet had 2,506 residents at the 2020 Census and a median home price of $5,885,000 in 2024, the third most expensive ZIP code in the country, with more than 60% of its houses counted as seasonal by the Town’s housing plan; the courts here are private, on the estates along Mecox Bay and the ocean lanes.
Public courts in Water Mill are run by the Town of Southampton Parks & Recreation in Hampton Bays (no public courts confirmed in the hamlet; Southampton Village’s permitted courts are the nearest); the tennis coach we put you in touch with knows the court rules and books the time.
How it works
Tell us about the lesson once. One certified, background-checked tennis coach who works Water Mill and handles summer camps regularly contacts you within 1 business day. Free for players and parents, no spam calls.
FAQ
Summer camps questions
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 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.
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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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Book a tennis coach in Water Mill
Sixty seconds: who is learning, their level, what kind of lessons, and where you are based. One certified, background-checked coach who teaches that age and level calls you within one business day. Free for players and parents; nobody else gets your number.
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