A New Idea for Tennis Court Construction
Tennis court construction for modern public use areas can be much more versatile than the single use clay or tarmac courts of old. These days, the MUGA, or Multi Use Gaming Area, is all the rage – and from a practically and financial point of view it is easy to see why.
The Multi Use Gaming Area fits up to six different sports pitches into the space of a single court, using different coloured lines to mark out the right areas for each one. The sports served by a MUGA are: tennis; basketball; netball; hockey; volleyball; and five a side football.
Modern tennis court construction in MUGA form can be achieved using any normal hard pitch surface. Latex coated macadam is very popular, both for its hard wearing properties and its cushioned nature. Bouncing balls work better with a bit of spring under them – and of course falling bodies are always happier to hit latex than concrete or uncovered macadam!
Designing a tennis court in conjunction with these sports pitches gives any public access facility – whether it is a sports club, a school playing field or a municipal recreation area – the versatility to provide entertainment all year round. Where such a facility takes money from the use of its pitches it also offers a much greater versatility. If every hard surface court in a leisure centre is a MUGA then that leisure centre has more chance of being able to accommodate its customers no matter what sport they want to play.
If your tennis court construction was only for a tennis court; and your basketball court was just a basketball court, then you would never be able to accommodate more tennis players than the maximum number of courts you had available. All those basketball courts may be left standing empty and there would be nothing you could do about it. By using a MUGA you can keep filling your pitches no matter what sport is in season.
A MUGA has a forward thinking shelf life too. Multi Use Gaming Areas are superb and versatile while they are being used for their six sport capabilities – but they can also provide an effective foundation for the installation of an Astroturf pitch. If your facility or public sports area has any eye on an Astroturf pitch in the future, then having a tennis court construction made as Latex covered MUGA can be an excellent way to start the ball rolling.
The MUGA itself, in an income generating situation, is able to generate money while the Astroturf pitch is still in the pipeline. When your facility is ready to introduce Astroturf, the MUGA is simply overlaid and a normally expensive and time consuming installation is completed in a much shorter time frame.
Versatility and sustainability are two hugely popular words in any public facility’s lexicon. The MUGA, with its ability both to provide cross-sport playing surfaces at one sixth of the cost of having six different kinds of pitch built – and to lay a foundation for the future – is more than just a tennis court construction. It’s a sound investment.
Author Bio:
Kestrel Contractors, reputable sports ground contractor carries out tennis court constructions apart from artificial turf and grass maintenance. They also offer drainage services apart from maintenance and renovation.
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