goop spotlights SPORTIME Amagansett as the Hamptons tennis hub

A Hamptons tennis address with real gravity

Goop’s Amagansett guide gives SPORTIME Amagansett a bright spotlight, but the club’s real significance is simpler and more practical: this is where a huge share of Hamptons tennis actually gets played. The appeal is not just prestige. It is court density, summer access, camp programming, and the kind of daily traffic that keeps the place moving from morning clinics to late-day matches.

At the center of that pull is scale. SPORTIME describes Amagansett as the largest outdoor tennis facility in the Hamptons, spread across 25 acres in East Hampton Town and built around 33 Har-Tru courts. The club says it runs an extended seven-month outdoor season from mid-April to early November, which is a meaningful stretch in a market where seasonal access often defines where people play. For anyone trying to keep tennis in the rhythm of a Hamptons summer, that long runway matters as much as the address.

What players find when they get there

The court count is only the start. The club also lists four pickleball courts, a heated pool, a pro shop, and a full-service café, which gives the property the feel of a full summer campus rather than a place you simply book and leave. That mix helps explain why families, seasonal residents, juniors, and regular adult players all keep returning. It is built for people who want to play, linger, and come back the next day.

The player experience is shaped by access as much as architecture. SPORTIME says members get unlimited play, daily game arranging, priority access to clinics, lessons, and events, plus participation in club tournaments. The club also says it has more than 500 partners available for arranging matches, which is the kind of detail that signals how deeply embedded the place is in the local tennis ecosystem. In peak summer, when everyone is trying to fit a few hours of court time into packed schedules, that partner pool becomes a real amenity.

A useful way to think about the club is as a working tennis hub with a steady churn of different users:

• Members looking for repeat court time
• Seasonal players who need dependable access during a short stay
• Adults joining clinics, lessons, and tournaments
• Juniors moving through camp and instruction
• Families stacking tennis, swimming, and downtime in one place

SPORTIME says the club serves 500 to 1,000 players and campers each day in summer, and that volume goes a long way toward explaining why it feels central. A club that busy is not just a venue. It is a social and athletic meeting point, with enough activity to make casual play, lesson traffic, and child care all part of the same daily pattern.

Why families treat it like a summer base

The camp piece is where the club’s utility becomes most obvious. Goop’s guide notes SPORTIME’s popular multi-sport summer day camp for children from pre-K through ninth grade, and SPORTIME says East Hampton Sports Camp @ SPORTIME Amagansett serves more than 300 children each day. That turns the property into a place where parents can solve more than one problem at once: tennis for one child, swimming for another, and a schedule that keeps the day anchored in one location.

That combination is a big reason the club reads less like a luxury diversion and more like infrastructure for summer life. The tennis facilities draw serious players, but the camp and pool bring in families who may care just as much about reliable supervision and an easy handoff as they do about backhands. In a region where every hour of the day can be overbooked, that kind of all-in-one setup is a major advantage.

A club with deep roots, not a borrowed brand

The Amagansett site did not arrive fully formed as a polished destination. SPORTIME’s own staff-profile material traces the property back to Claude Okin, who owned and operated the Amagansett EastSide Tennis Club from 1989 to 1998 after buying, renovating, and expanding it into a 22-court outdoor tennis and swim club. Before that, he ran the Amagansett Tennis Club from 1981 to 1988 and merged it into Amagansett EastSide Tennis Club in 1989.

That history matters because it shows the club as an evolving part of the East End tennis landscape, not a recent lifestyle build-out. Another SPORTIME staff profile says Ben coached at the Amagansett EastSide Tennis Club during the summers of 1989 through 1992 and identifies it as the first club owned and operated by SPORTIME founder and CEO Claude Okin. The through line is continuity: a property that has changed over time, but never lost its function as a place where the tennis community gathers.

The arena broadens the campus

The Amagansett story also stretches beyond the clay. In 2011, Patch reported that Sportime expanded its Amagansett campus to include the town-owned arena across Abraham’s Path and entered a 15-year lease with East Hampton Town to operate it. SPORTIME’s current multi-sport materials describe that arena as a climate-controlled facility centered on a regulation-size rink measuring 200 by 85 feet, with use for roller hockey, soccer, lacrosse, basketball, and volleyball.

That addition helps explain why the campus works so well for East End families. It is not a single-purpose tennis site that goes quiet when the courts do. It is a broader sports complex with enough variety to keep kids, teams, and recreational players moving through the property in different seasons. The arena extends the club’s reach and gives the Amagansett campus a year-round sports identity that complements its seven-month outdoor tennis season.

Goop’s guide may have supplied the lifestyle cue, but SPORTIME Amagansett’s real value is on the ground: 33 Har-Tru courts, a deep match-finding network, summer camp, pool access, and a campus large enough to serve both serious players and families in one place. That is why the club keeps drawing locals and seasonal players back. In Amagansett, tennis is not just part of the scene. At SPORTIME, it is the scene.