Bromley has been named as the best borough in London for those wanting to try their hand at outdoor tennis.

According to research by Net World Sports, Bromley has 64 outdoor tennis courts for the 246,500 residents to enjoy.

There are 26 indoor tennis courts, and it costs on average £13 to play tennis at the weekend in Bromley.

In order, the next best boroughs to play some outdoor tennis are Barnet, Enfield, Richmond and then Hounslow.

While there are a lot of of tennis courts to use in Bromley, it is the third most expensive borough in London when it comes to practising tennis.

According to Net World Sports, Greenwich is the second most expensive borough for playing tennis in London at £14 per hour, coming only behind the City of London.

The price in Greenwich is noted as being well above the London average of £7.51, but with 19 outdoor courts in the area at 14 per 100,000 people, there’s a solid number of facilities available.

However, Greenwich Council claims that this amount refers to Greenwich Park tennis courts, which are run by Royal Parks.

According to Greenwich Council, it costs between £3 and £6.30 per hour to book a council run tennis court in the borough.

Three of London’s boroughs offer free-to-play tennis during peak times to members of the public – Croydon, Haringey and Kensington and Chelsea.

There are over 100 outdoor courts available between the three boroughs, with 50 of them located in Croydon, where the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and local council provide free play for the public.

Members of the public within Kingston upon Thames can expect to pay around £4 for an hour of play during peak times, making it one of the cheapest in London and the UK.

To establish the number of tennis courts per city, the number of sports facilities across Local Authority Districts (LAD) in England were used as an official dataset from ONS 2024 by Net World Sports.

For cities in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Google Places API was used to capture all tennis courts within a five-mile radius of each city. 

According to Net World Sports, this method was also used for cities in England to capture the average number of reviews and ratings for tennis courts across all UK cities.

Tennis courts per 100,000 people was created by using official population data from the Census 2021 against ONS data for sports access.

Costs to hire a tennis court for one hour on the weekend was established through research, with most cities having prices set for public tennis courts by their local councils; where this is not the case, prices were found by looking up local tennis court websites.