Get This: Fault! New York town’s new $3.5M tennis courts too short stat : limaohio

MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — A New York town has padlocked the tennis courts in a brand new $3.5 million park because they were built improperly. The truncated courts caused at least one player to run into the fence. The U.S. Tennis Association recommends courts have 21 feet behind the baseline. The two courts at the recently opened Sweet Hollow Park in Melville don't have enough clearance between the baseline and the fence. The new courts in the hamlet in Huntington have less than 10 feet, while the sides are about 2 feet short of the recommended 12 feet.




Tennis courts should have 21 feet behind the baseline, according to U.S. Tennis Association recommendations — but these courts had less than 10 feet. The fences behind the tennis courts at Sweet Hallow Park in Melville are too close to the court. Brand-new multi-million dollar tennis courts on Long Island were closed to the public because of a critical design error — they are too small. "If they were my contractors, I would have sued every one of them," the player told the station. Because of an unenforced error by town planners, the courts don't have enough clearance between the baseline and the fence.


MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) A New York town has padlocked the tennis courts in a brand new $3.5 million park because they were built improperly. The truncated courts caused at least one player to run into the fence. The two courts at the recently opened Sweet Hollow Park in Melville don't have enough clearance between the baseline and the fence. The U.S. Tennis Association recommends courts have 21 feet behind the baseline. The new courts in the hamlet in Huntington have less than 10 feet, while the sides are about 2 feet short of the recommended 12 feet.


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