JBTA - JAPAN BEACH TENNIS ASSOCIATION Official Site

What’s Beach Tennis

It is like a combination of regular tennis and beach volleyball into one exciting sport. Using regular tennis rackets on a sand court (same size as beach volleyball), two players on each side hit depressurized tennis ball back and forth without letting it bounce. You lose a point when hitting the ball outside the lines or letting it hit in the sand. Same scoring as regular tennis but is one-match/eight games.
Beach Tennis is played with either a racket or a paddle.

Beach tennis was born in Brazil, and is now played across the world. The popularity grew majorly especially in Italy, Spain, and the United States and are broadcasted through television networks nationwide. There are about 20,000 to 30,000 players in the world today.
Beach Tennis USA (BTUSA) has planned an international tour of 2009 with big money prizes. It is so simple and fun to play that appeals to athletes and non-athletes of all ages. It is also expected to become an official sport in the Olympics 2012.
JBTA will host both racket and paddle tournaments of 2009, given advice by Japan Tennis Association (JTA).

Proposal of Beach Tennis　

Beach tennis is so simple and safe to play casually on sand.
It is precisely a new sport that enables all ages/families to have fun. It’s similar to a traditional gamehagoita, badminton, traditional tennis, and beach volleyball all unified together. This means that this sport is new but similar.

Your dream can come true!
Since beach tennis is a new sport worldwide, everybody has a chance to become a professional player.

Beach Tennis is for fun and for your dream!

l JBTA appeals volunteers to participate in our “Beach Clean” activity.

Rule of Beach Tennis

　Rules

Hit the ball back and forth without letting it bounce. The point is over when the ball hits the sand.

One serve only (cross court) with no faults or lets.

Scoring is the same as tennis (0-15-30-40) but no-ad at deuce. At deuce, receiving team chooses which player receives the serve. The match consists of one eight-game,s 12point tiebreaker except for the final championships is scored by 2 sets (6-games, no-ad, 12point tiebreaker).
This is a de-pressurized ball (6 lbs of pressure instead of 12).
The court is 30 feet wide by 60 feet long. There is a center line that splits the court lengthwise. The net is 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Beach Tennis Kits

Kits	De-pressurized balls Traditional tennis racket or paddle (use of junior racket is prohibited)
Clothing	Anything comfortable such as swim wears, tennis wears Tennis shoes, sand socks, bare foot possible

＊Beach Tennis Rental Court＊

Place	Kawasaki Marien Beach Tennis Rental Court
Operating Hours	9:00 am to 5:00 pm (ONLY WEEKDAYS)
Court	Two
Fee	600 yen/ per hour
Facility	Locker rooms/ Shower
Inquiry	044-287-6006 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm) Kawasaki-kou Shinkou-Kyoukai
Access	http://www.kawasakiport.or.jp/access.html