Tennis ladders in Westchester

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The county parks department runs one set of public tennis courts, at Tibbetts Brook Park in Yonkers, and points everyone else to their own town's recreation department. Each city, town and village writes its own rules, and every one on this page starts with where you live. The table lists the courts we could confirm on each operator's own page.

Public tennis courts in Westchester, by operator

"Not stated" means the operator's page doesn't say. Har-Tru is a clay surface; "all-weather" and "omni" are the operators' own words. Fees are 2026 prices for one adult. We checked every row against the operator's page or 2026 brochure on October 17, 2026.

Read the "Who can play" column first. A Scarsdale permit gets you nothing in New Rochelle, or the other way around. On a county-wide ladder, two sites are open to the widest pool: Gillie Park, which sells a non-resident pass, and Tibbetts Brook, open to any county resident with a Park Pass. The sections below take the operators one at a time, starting with the county.

The county courts at Tibbetts Brook

Tibbetts Brook Park, on Midland Avenue in Yonkers, has the county's six all-weather courts. The park is open every day of the year from 8 a.m. to dusk. You need proof that you live in Westchester: a county Park Pass, or a New York State driver's license with a Westchester address.

The Park Pass costs $100 for an adult and lasts three years. Seniors 60 and over can pay $17 for one year instead. The county issues it in person only, at its park pass offices, with proof of residency.

Yonkers players have the city's own parks too. The City of Yonkers counts 23 tennis courts, but its pages give no court-by-court list and no fees, so the table has no City of Yonkers row.

White Plains: Gillie Park

Gillie Park sits at Mamaroneck Avenue and Gedney Way, and its ten Har-Tru courts all have lights. The city sells a season pass: $150 for an adult resident, $130 for a senior, $90 for a youth and $325 for anyone who lives outside White Plains. Guest coupons cost $65 for five plays.

The 2026 season runs from May 4 to October 25. Courts open at 8 a.m. on weekdays (9:30 a.m. on Mondays) and close at 9 p.m., and at 6 p.m. on weekends and holidays. Call 914-422-5127 to reserve a court or to check whether rain has closed them.

Greenburgh's town courts

The Town of Greenburgh runs 26 tennis courts for residents of its unincorporated area. Residents need the town's photo ID, the UniCard, on every court. The big site is Anthony F. Veteran Park, with 17 lit tennis courts, and it is for unincorporated residents only.

A $115 adult membership covers tennis, platform tennis and pickleball at Veteran Park and East Rumbrook Park. Without one, a resident pays $7 a day at Veteran Park, and a guest pays $8 on weekdays or $10 on weekends. Court hours change with the season, so call 914-989-1830 first.

Greenburgh also sells non-residents a permit for its courts other than Veteran Park. The town's page lists no price for it.

Scarsdale's village courts

Scarsdale keeps 26 courts at four sites, all for village residents. A permit runs from April 1 to October 31 and costs $170 for an adult, $85 for a senior 65 or over and $102 for a junior. You book every court online, a booking lasts one hour, and the court is released if you are ten minutes late. Check in with the court attendant before you play.

A non-resident has to come as a resident's guest. That costs $20 an hour, and on weekends it's allowed from noon to 4 p.m. The High School courts on Wayside Lane are the lit ones, until about 10 p.m. in season.

New Rochelle's Pinebrook Tennis Center

New Rochelle's public courts are at the Pinebrook Tennis Center, on Pinebrook Boulevard at Albert Leonard Road. You need the city's Tennis Card, which only residents can buy: $100 a year for an adult, $65 for a senior 60 or over. Courts are first come, first served from sunrise to sunset, and the center closes from December 1 to March 1.

Memorial Park, Town of Mamaroneck

Memorial Park, on Myrtle Boulevard in Larchmont, has the Town of Mamaroneck's four courts. They're open April 1 to October 31 from 9 a.m. to dusk. An adult membership is $165 for a town resident and $205 for a resident of the villages of Larchmont and Mamaroneck. Members book by phone at 914-834-7074, up to a week ahead, and get an hour a day. Residents without a membership can walk on for $15, for one hour, but they can't book.

Winter and indoor tennis

The town courts in White Plains, Scarsdale and Mamaroneck close by the end of October, and Pinebrook follows on December 1. Scarsdale runs its winter adult lessons indoors, at SPORTIME Lake Isle in Eastchester. The table lists no indoor club, because we found none that publishes terms for a casual booking. If your winter has no court in it, the absence rule further down keeps your rung.

The calendar here is set by the towns more than the weather. Scarsdale and Mamaroneck open their courts from April 1 to October 31, and Gillie Park's 2026 season runs from May 4 to October 25. The county's courts at Tibbetts Brook stay open all year, from 8 a.m. to dusk. The weather figures below are NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for Westchester County Airport.

Heat is rarely the problem. Even July averages fewer than five days at 90°F or more. Rain comes all year, from 2.5 inches in February to 4.9 in September. If rain closes Gillie Park, the city says so on 914-422-5127. On a ladder, a rained-out match moves to another day inside the 30-day play window.

The ladder runs on the same rules everywhere. What Westchester adds is the permit question, so settle it before you send a challenge. Work out which courts both of you can use. A Scarsdale resident can bring a non-resident as a guest for $20 an hour, though on weekends only from noon to 4 p.m. Anyone can buy a Gillie Park pass, and Tibbetts Brook takes any two county residents. The challenger books the court unless you agree otherwise.

Then size the match to the court. Scarsdale asks you to play one hour per booking, and so does Memorial Park. A one-hour slot is not best of three. Deuce records six formats, among them an eight-game pro set, one set with a tiebreak at 6-6, short sets to four and FAST4. Pick one that fits the slot before you walk on. The Westchester ladder accepts all six.

The mechanics

The table has the defaults. An organizer can change the challenge range, both windows and the rematch cooldown. The first challenge, the absence rule and the inactivity schedule are fixed.

Winter matters on this ladder. Points decay after 30 days without a played match, and the Scarsdale and Memorial Park courts close on October 31. If you have no indoor court, take an absence: it stops challenges reaching you and pauses the decay. A standard absence lasts up to 21 days and you can take as many as you need. An extended absence lasts up to six months, needs a written reason and goes to your organizer. The rules page and the scoring page have the detail, and the glossary explains rung and level band.

Local leagues and ladders sort players by NTRP. USTA Eastern builds its leagues on NTRP level and age, and a player new to the USTA starts with a self-rating. Westchester Tennis Ladders uses the same scale: its advanced singles ladder is for players rated 4.0 to 5.0 and up, its intermediate ladder for 3.0 to low 4.0.

On Deuce a rating helps but isn't required. Give an NTRP, UTR, WTN or club level if you have one. If you've never been rated, describe your game and we'll place you. Placement follows two rules.

1. A close call goes up. Torn between 3.5 and 4.0? You start at 4.0. Starting too low means easy wins for you and a skewed ladder for the players below.
2. Your first match fixes it. Your first challenge can go to anyone in your level band, so a wrong placement doesn't last past one result.

The rating conversion table lines NTRP up against UTR and WTN. For what each NTRP level looks like on court, see the NTRP rating chart.

League tennis here runs through USTA Eastern. Westchester also has a seasonal ladder that dates from 2020 and a flex league run by the Tennis League Network. We describe each from its own page as of October 17, 2026.

The local ladder and the flex league both run on seasons, while a Deuce ladder just keeps going. You challenge when you're ready, the other player gets five days to answer, and an accepted match has 30 days to get played. Finding a court you can both use is still up to the two of you.

Deuce isn't the right fit for every player here. The county ladder is singles only. Doubles players have Westchester Tennis Ladders' women's doubles ladder and USTA Eastern's mixed and tri-level leagues. A USTA league also gives you a team and a captain, which a ladder doesn't. The flex league ends each season with playoffs.

Quick answers, checked against the sources on October 17, 2026. Skip to the one you need.

The county ladder is for singles players from anywhere in Westchester. A smaller ladder often works better here, because a town ladder settles the permit question at the start. A ladder of Scarsdale permit holders can use every village court. The same goes for a group of Greenburgh cardholders, Gillie Park pass holders, or a club's members.

The application is ten questions and takes about five minutes. Someone at Deuce reads each one and writes back if anything is unclear. Once approved, the ladder is live, and players can join and challenge that day.

You need ten players you can name. Twelve or more is better, because a small group keeps drawing the same opponents. With fewer than ten, apply anyway, and we'll say so if the group is too thin to work.

Nothing imports from a spreadsheet or another ladder site. Invite your players once the ladder is approved, and let each one's unrestricted first challenge sort out the order.

Start a ladder in Westchester

• Westchester County Department of Parks: Sports and Leisure, Park Passes, Tibbetts Brook Park
• City of White Plains: Gillie Park and Spring/Summer 2026 Memberships and Permits
• Town of Greenburgh: Tennis, Pickleball and Platform
• Village of Scarsdale: Tennis Rules and Regulations, Tennis, Platform Tennis and Pickleball, General Information, and the facility pages for Brite Avenue Park, Crossway Field, the Middle School courts and the High School courts
• City of New Rochelle: Tennis Card and Pinebrook Tennis Center
• Town of Mamaroneck Recreation: Tennis Programs, Spring/Summer 2026 brochure and 2026 membership form
• USTA Eastern: Find Your USTA Eastern Region, Southern Region, Adult League General Information
• Westchester Tennis Ladders: Home, Join, How It Works, Our Story
• Westchester Tennis League: Home and How a season runs
• Rival Tennis Ladder: Tennis Ladder in New York
• U.S. Monthly Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, station Westchester County Airport (USW00094745)

Last verified: October 2026.

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