Want to play a set? Head to Fresh Meadows

Serena Williams waves to the crowd after advancing to the U.S. Open final in Flushing Meadows. Queens residents inspired by Williams can head to Fresh Meadows, Astoria or St. Albans to find the most courts in Queens. AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez.

By David Brand

The U.S. Open wound down this weekend, but tennis fever is just heating up for many Queens residents enthralled with Serena, Rafa, Naomi and Novak.

Looking for a place to learn the game, or just want to work on your backhand? The home search website Localize.city has identified and mapped 587 public tennis courts at locations across New York City and highlighted the neighborhoods with the most places to play. 

Fresh Meadows has the most public courts of any neighborhood in Queens, with 20, followed by Astoria with 17 and St. Albans with 16. 

Alley Pond Tennis Center has 16 public courts. There are 14 courts each in Forest Park and Astoria Park, and 11 in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, site of the U.S. Open.

“You can play tennis in virtually every corner of New York City,” said Localize.city urban planner Sam Sklar. “While the tennis centers in Manhattan have the most courts at each location, it has fewer courts per person than the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, the home of the U.S. Open.”

East New York’s 26 tennis courts are the most of any neighborhood in the city.

To play on one of the courts, New Yorkers first need to purchase a single day or annual pass from the Parks Department. More information on obtaining a pass is available on the Parks Department website.