Beyond the Baseline Tennis Blog ----------------JV (pghtennis) wrote, @ 2003-04-17 10:21:00

Frick Park Tennis Courts: Wasteland or Tennis Club?
We are coming up on the third summer that the Frick Park tennis courts have remained closed and unplayable.

When one inquires about the reasons for this, you encounter the usual fast talking and finger pointing that attempt to cover for the underlying stupidity, incompetence and sloth of those responsible.

While walking at the other side of Frick Park last weekend, a light bulb went off.

Across from the Frick Art Museum is the Frick Park Lawn Bowling Club. The club is a membership organization that maintains the facility at no cost to the City of Pittsburgh.

Why can't a Frick Park Tennis Club be formed? Replace the un-maintainable dirt (clay?) surface with Har-Tru and charge membership and or hourly court fees that support the maintenance and oversight of the facility.

Those in charge (or who say they are in charge) will tell you that Frick's will stipulated that the courts must be clay. I've never read the details of this arrangement, a lawyer probably needs to be involved, but Har-Tru IS considered clay, it's just not red clay and has many advantages over red clay.

What do you think?

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