Hamptons Tennis Classic returns to Sportime Amagansett for charity day

The Hamptons Tennis Classic is back at Sportime Amagansett with a clear double identity: part tennis day, part social fundraiser, and fully built around the East End’s appetite for polished racquet-sport events. The draw is not just a spot on the calendar. It is the blend of competitive play, instruction, and charity that keeps Sportime Amagansett in the center of the Hamptons tennis conversation.

The event is set for 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 320 Abrahams Path in East Hampton. Admission includes lunch, snacks, classes, a silent auction, an awards reception, and a gift bag, which makes the day feel less like a one-off tournament and more like a full clubhouse-style gathering. Anyone registering by Friday, July 29 gets a 10 percent discount, a detail that makes the entry window worth watching for players and donors who like to plan ahead.

Sportime Amagansett gives the Classic the kind of setting that reads immediately as Hamptons tennis. The venue listings describe it as a seasonal complex open from May through November with 33 outdoor Har-Tru tennis courts. It also has a Deco-Turf tennis and multi-sport court, a heated outdoor swimming pool, a mini-basketball court, playground, three natural turf sports fields, two clubhouses, a camp house, a pro shop, and a café. The scale of the place helps explain why this event can pull off both a serious tennis atmosphere and a social one without feeling forced.

The beneficiary is The PRASAD Project and PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program, better known as PRASAD CDHP. PRASAD launched the children’s dental program in April 1998, and the group says it has spent more than 26 years improving dental health for low-income children in Sullivan County, New York, through affordable, comprehensive care. Its model centers on a state-of-the-art mobile dental clinic that serves public school campuses, with a mission built on education, prevention, detection, and treatment. PRASAD also says children nationwide lose 51 million school hours each year because of dental problems.

That mix tells you who the Classic is really for. Serious players get classes and a racquet-sport setting that already carries the weight of the John McEnroe Tennis Academy. Sponsors and donors get the silent auction, reception, and gift-bag treatment. The broader Hamptons tennis community gets another polished day at Sportime Amagansett, where the tennis and the philanthropy are designed to work together.