Every June and July, the tennis world’s attention turns to the hallowed grass courts of the All-England Club at Wimbledon. But historic tennis courts abound on this side of the Atlantic, too. From venerable private clubs to beloved public facilities, we’ve served up a sampling of places where generations of American tennis players have swung their rackets.

Bitsy Grant Tennis Center
Atlanta

Atlanta’s biggest public tennis facility, with 13 composition clay courts and 10 hard courts, is named after the smallest American man to win a major tournament. (Atlanta-born Bitsy Grant, the world’s No. 6 player in 1937, stood 5’4” and weighed 120 pounds.) In the early 1950s, architect Richard Aeck designed the complex’s Midcentury Modern, glass-and-concrete observation building, and his son Tony, of the design firm Lord Aeck Sargent, led an award-winning 2009 restoration and rehab.

Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club
Rumson, New Jersey

At Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club in Rumson, New Jersey, the menu options are iced tea, lemonade, and Gatorade. Focused completely on sport and socializing, Seabright doesn’t serve food or other fripperies in its 1886 Shingle-Style building. “We just love to play tennis,” says Jack McWilliams, chair of the club’s Landmark Friends Committee.

Designed by Renwick Aspinall & Russell, with a 1920s renovation by Creighton Withers, the clubhouse had its vintage windows restored last year, in time for Seabright to host the intercollegiate Prentice Cup later this summer. The club’s 350-plus members play on 16 grass courts and 15 composition clay courts, and if they need to cool off afterward, the Atlantic Ocean is just a few blocks away.

Dr. Robert Walter Johnson Home & Tennis Court
Lynchburg, Virginia

A couple of net posts and a few overhead lights for night play are all that currently remain visible of a pioneering tennis training center for African-American children in Lynchburg, Virginia. Founded in the mid-20th-century by Dr. Robert Walter Johnson (now known as the “godfather of black tennis”) on land next to his house, the free program helped launch the legendary careers of Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson. Johnson died in 1971, and the property has fallen into disrepair.

Olivers' Red Clay Tennis Courts
Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Since 1969, tennis fanatics on Cape Cod have known exactly where to play on real clay: Olivers' Red Clay Tennis Courts, founded by Jim and Sue Oliver and now run by their son Steve. The property's six meticulously maintained courts get their distinctive shade from red slate dust, a byproduct of slate quarrying in upstate New York and Vermont. Olivers' also contains one composition clay court, and is open to the public from March or April through September or October, depending on the weather.

Merion Cricket Club
Haverford, Pennsylvania

Just a handful of buildings by the great Victorian-era architect Frank Furness remain, and the 1896 clubhouse at Merion Cricket is one of them. As tennis and golf gradually overtook cricket in popularity, the suburban Philadelphia club adapted, spinning off its famous golf course into a separate organization in 1942. Merion Cricket’s manicured lawns are still a coveted stop for those who love to play tennis on traditional grass courts.

Newport Casino/International Tennis Hall of Fame
Newport, Rhode Island

Before the U.S. Open moved to Forest Hills Stadium (and, later, Flushing Meadows), it was played at the Newport Casino, a social club built in 1880 for the tony summer resort town of Newport, Rhode Island. Today, the McKim, Mead & White-designed structure houses the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Renovated in 2015, the Casino still contains some of its original furniture, and its 13 restored grass courts are open to the public.

For more on historic tennis venues, see our story on the West Side Tennis Club in Queens, New York.