Grass & Court Tennis

Dating back centuries, grass tennis courts were the original surface to be played on. In the United States today, grass surfaces make up less than one percent of the nation’s tennis courts. With 16 grass courts that emerge from the dramatic natural sand dunes of central Wisconsin, Sand Valley provides an authentic grass tennis experience that few other destinations provide.

Court Tennis is the original and oldest of all the racquet sports dating back more than nine hundred years. It is sometimes called "the sport of Kings" as royals such as King Edward III and Henry VIII frequently played. In the beginning tennis started as an outdoor version of handball, played in alleys, courtyards and streets of rural France.  

By the fifteenth century, the racquet was invented and the current, asymmetric shape of the court – designed to replicate a street with awnings and shop windows and doors - was standardized.