Baseline Tennis Center

If you play at Baseline, you must. must. must… do something for me. Go to the bleacher area and check out the vintage University of Minnesota tennis team photos from the inception of tennis at the school. It goes WAY back and you will cry laughing. Mostly at the haircuts.
As I mentioned in my previous review, I’m the biggest fan of tennis. I love it more than all sports combined. I’ve played in a summer WTT league here forever, but I’ve been playing at Baseline even more the last couple of years with USTA leagues year-​round.
The courts are in really good shape so I’m happy hitting here. There are changing rooms downstairs, and bleachers for my adoring fans both indoors and outdoors. They will re-​string your racquet at the front desk and sell you balls if you forgot them. There’s still some room for improvement and I outlined most of those things in my old review.
Parking is easy ($ 4 at the lot in the back, which is usually empty), but it’s a mess when there is a hockey game. My choices last Friday night were to wait in a 20 minute line of cars to pay $ 10 (and miss my court-​time) or run five freezing blocks while wearing a tennis skirt. I couldn’t feel my legs. Lesson learned… for this and many other reasons, beware of campus on Friday evenings.