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THE PLACE FOR GREAT TENNIS - In Winter!? For as long as we can remember, and especially since Kingston lost its only indoor tennis facility several years ago, people have been talking about enclosing some of the courts at KTC to ensure quality tennis year-round. In addition, KTC needs to update and rationalize the layout of our facilities, to enhance the enjoyability of the club and better control access to the Club. It is getting to the point that rebuilding the club house makes more sense than continuing to patch it up. While other sports organizations in the area have toyed with providing indoor tennis, we feel that KTC's unbeatable central location and friendly atmosphere uniquely qualify us as the logical place for viable indoor tennis. Since indoor tennis by necessity will be more expensive than outdoor tennis, and given the experience of other indoor tennis facilities in medium-sized cities, enclosing two courts should be sufficient to allow an intensive winter tennis season for Kingston's hard-core players, and pay for itself. Moreover, moving the club house to the front lawn will allow us to add an eighth court. At this time, KTC as a purely outdoor club has already grown its membership to a level where we can begin to contemplate such dreams. We are now seriously looking at the further steps we need to follow to realize year-round tennis in Kingston once again, and towards that end, we are working hard to rapidly strenghten our financial position while continuing to improve our existing facilities and services, and we've drawn up some preliminary sketches to guide us, in consultation with our members, our neighbours, stakeholders and the city, to an invigorating KTC that does everyone proud. We welcome your Feedback!  ...The two-story club house will accommodate front desk, tennis shop and refreshments serving area, cosy indoor seating, washroom and laundry facilities, all on the first floor. The second floor will house the main changing rooms, as well as an all-purpose room that can be used for Pilates, Yoga, and other supporting activities...  ...Moving the club house frees up room for an extra court between courts 1 and 7, but it will reduce the front lawn somewhat. A buffer of evergreens will be planted behind the building to shield the neighbours...
 ...While the width of the front lawn is reduced, the depth can be adjusted by moving the lawn's fence closer to the property line along Napier Street. The height of the roof over the courts, shown in the picture above, is based on the USTA-recommended ceiling height at netline of 38'. Similarly, the width and depth of the building are based on the recommended dimensions for two side-by-side courts. As much as possible, natural light will be used to light the indoor courts; windows shown illustrate this, though numbers, sizes and positions will likely change...  ...Main floor view onto indoor courts...  ...Second floor view onto indoor courts & court 6...  ...Similar 2-court structure in Surrey, England... Eugene Bann Indoor Tennis Centre |
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