FREDERICKSBURG RACQUET CENTER

COMING SPRING 2026

The Community Racquet Center Dream

The Fredericksburg Racquet Center is a public-private partnership involving the City of Fredericksburg, the Austin-based Fueling Tennis Futures Foundation, a new non-profit called the Fredericksburg Tennis Center Foundation, tennis and pickleball professionals, community leaders, and racquet sports enthusiasts. Discussions about a community racquet center began in the fall of 2023, following survey results from the City of Fredericksburg’s Parks Master Plan, which showed a strong need for more pickleball and tennis courts, as well as walking trails in our community.

For the racquet center, the City has allocated 20 acres on Friendship Lane and envisions a central location, easily accessible for the growing local neighborhoods and the public middle and high school campuses.

We have a long-term lease agreement with the City of Fredericksburg for use of the property as a park and racquet facility. It will be a public access facility available for use by all Fredericksburg citizens. The Fredericksburg Racquet Center will own the facility. The facility will be operated by a third party, RPM Academy, a Foundation-supported, experienced tennis and pickleball professional group relocating from Austin. The model is similar to the successful model used for Lady Bird Johnson Golf Course.

The racquet center will offer affordable membership rates.

 It also will serve as a training facility for youth tennis players in the Hill Country area and will host at least two tennis and two pickleball tournaments for juniors and adults each year. Proceeds from the tournaments will go toward membership and junior player development scholarships.

Group of children and a woman practicing tennis on an outdoor court with tennis balls, tennis rackets, and tennis ball carts, surrounded by trees and black windscreen.

The team behind the community racquet center project brings together many years of experience in playing and instructing tennis and pickleball, fueled by a shared passion for these sports. Many of us grew up with racquet sports and have raised young athletes, witnessing firsthand the valuable life lessons it imparts—discipline, resilience, focus, self-confidence and stress relief. We understand the superb benefits of racquet sports and are committed to making racquet sports more accessible to everyone in our town, especially the youth.

In partnership with the City, the Fredericksburg Racquet Center is uniquely qualified to improve the recreational offerings in Fredericksburg. There is a great community need; the City has donated the land; the land is well-suited for such a park and facility; we have professionals to run the racquet center, and we have community leaders dedicated to seeing the project and facility to completion. We are an ideal example of a grassroots community effort, bringing together skills, talents and passion for the betterment of the town we love.

We chose this project based on the need for recreational facilities and because we know the positive impact a facility like this will have on our community. We chose this project because we believe our children and young people, especially, but also our families, adults, and retirees, too, will benefit from additional access to healthy and fun activities.

Join us in rallying for our community, for our kids and for our future! Help us make the racquet center a reality!

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A woman playing tennis on an outdoor court, running towards the ball with a smile, while a man in the background is also holding a tennis racket.
Two women playing pickleball, one younger with brown hair and a baseball hat, jumping with a pickleball paddle, the other older with gray hair and sunglasses, holding a paddle, both smiling and appearing happy on a pickleball court.
Two girls playing tennis on an outdoor court with a ball machine and a coach in the middle. The girls are holding tennis rackets, one in a pink dress and the other in a white dress, with tennis balls scattered on the court.
Six young girls playing tennis on an outdoor court, one girl throwing a tennis ball, others holding rackets, with a cart full of tennis balls nearby, surrounded by green trees.
A boy playing tennis on an outdoor court, hitting a ball with a racket, with tennis balls scattered on the court.
Four women are playing pickleball on an outdoor court, with one woman handing a paddle and another holding a paddle, all smiling around the net.
Two young women playing pickleball on an outdoor court, with other people in the background practicing and a tennis net in the foreground.
Four people playing pickleball on an outdoor court during daytime.
A man standing on a tennis court holding tennis balls and a racket, with a cart of tennis balls nearby. A person is holding a racket in the foreground, preparing to hit a tennis ball. The court is surrounded by a black fence with a scoreboard visible in the background.
Two women playing pickleball on an outdoor court, with one woman preparing to hit a ball with her paddle and the other woman waiting near the net.