Tennis courts are too big!
How is it possible to build a new tennis court or new tennis club almost anywhere in the world these days? Apart from the tennis court construction being quite expensive, the piece of land you have to set aside to do it on is just way too valuable!
Existing clubs are fine, but if anyone has an idea how to buy a piece of land, build tennis courts on it and then run a club with members, coaching etc. on it in a profitable way, I would like to hear it please!!
I know a few years back I was coaching in Philadelphia on a summer camp and the owner had a beautiful indoor facility. (6 courts). Even he said, you can take that same square size and make it just a storage warehouse and you'll make a profit compared to the courts being in there.
Fair enough, that was a state of the art indoor facility because of snow in the winter... But even open courts still won't be profitable enough to pay the monthly mortgage on a piece of land (situated well enough to attract members) with a tennis club on it.
Football fields, Baseball pitches, Basketball courts, all cover a big area but can sustain a huge number of players at the same time, while tennis courts can handle 4 people at the most at the same time (unless your coaching huge groups of people).
Are tennis courts indeed too big to be profitable?
Is painting too hard work for you, Tibor?
Why to hate? Such a strong form of expression! I don't understand it in another way but you must have perhaps dozens of tennis courts of your own.... And you are afraid of painting work with these couple of new lines per one court!
Perhaps you can give one dozen courts to tennisfaf! Painting can be easier for him!