{"id":715114,"date":"2026-06-04T16:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:32:15","slug":"you-can-play-tennis-at-wollman-rink-in-nyc-for-free-this-summer-here-is-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715114\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Play Tennis at Wollman Rink in NYC For Free This Summer, Here is How"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to\u00a0get the Wimbledon<\/a> experience without dropping major flight money? You don’t have to travel across the pond to get a taste of the famous British tennis\u00a0tournament: Wimbledon is coming right to Wollman Rink<\/a>\u00a0later this month.<\/p>\n

From Friday, June 26 through Monday, June 29, a four-day immersive activation dubbed\u00a0\u201cThe Wimbledon Court in Central Park\u201d will bring a playable, full-scale\u00a0tennis court<\/a>\u00a0(made from the tournament\u2019s iconic grass and\u00a0maintained by Wimbledon\u2019s expert grounds staff)\u00a0right there on the rink. Headlining the sporty event is “The Wimbledon Court Invitational” on Friday at 2pm, an exhibition match that will see two pairs of tennis icons\u2014Andre Agassi and Genie Bouchard taking on James Blake and Caroline Wozniacki\u2014go head-to-head in a friendly doubles match. (You can apply for free tickets to the match\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

RECOMMENDED: You can play pickleball in Central Park again\u00a0this summer<\/a><\/p>\n

But they’re not the only one allowed to get in on the serve-and-volley fun: On Saturday and Sunday, a number of lucky attendees will get the chance\u00a0to flex their own tennis skills with\u00a0free slots to play on the pop-up court. (You can enter the public ballot for those slots\u00a0here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\nRendering: Courtesy The Experiential GroupThe Wimbledon Court in Central Park <\/p>\n

A variety of tennis-themed programming will be on offer throughout all four days, including free tennis clinics with coaches, quintessential Wimbledon fare (like strawberries and cream, Scotch eggs and sausage rolls washed down with Pimm’s Cups\u00a0and Champagne Lanson), and\u00a0giant screens broadcasting the matches live from The Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to bring Wimbledon to the US for a fifth successive year, giving New York\u2019s devoted tennis fans a flavour of Wimbledon,” said\u00a0Usama Al-Qassab, Marketing and Commercial Director at The All England Lawn Tennis Club, which stages the\u00a0Wimbledon Championship. \u201cWhether they are watching the unique exhibition matches we have planned, enjoying the rare opportunity to play on a Wimbledon grass court, coming to New York for the first time ever, or tasting some of Wimbledon\u2019s traditional food and drink, our four\u2011day event will bring the celebration of \u2018tennis in an English garden\u2019 to New York\u2019s iconic Central Park.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to\u00a0get the Wimbledon experience without dropping major flight money? You don’t have to travel across the pond…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,285823,285824,85,285822,747],"class_list":["post-715114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-categories-sports-and-fitness","tag-news-sports-fitness","tag-sports","tag-sports-and-fitness","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}