Why you should experience Beverly Hills Tennis in Los Angeles, California.
Beverly Hills Tennis is an accomplished public tennis program where La Cienega Park's long athletic tradition meets tournament-level coaching, a purpose-built elevated court complex and more than three decades of continuous instruction at one of Beverly Hills' principal recreation sites.
Set along South La Cienega Boulevard near Gregory Way and just steps from La Cienega Park, the tennis center occupies Beverly Hills' eastern edge across from playing fields established within a recreation landscape dating to 1928. Sixteen lighted courts spread across the roof of a large parking structure, creating an unusually expansive playing deck elevated above street level. Repeated courts and open sightlines establish a strong tournament configuration, with adjacent playing surfaces allowing lessons, clinics and competitive matches to unfold simultaneously. Evening lighting extends the visual field after sunset, preserving the full dimensions of the court and surrounding run-off space during later sessions. The result is a La Cienega Park tennis destination whose elevated architecture and concentration of courts give public play the scale and focus of a dedicated racquet complex.
What you should know about Beverly Hills Tennis.
Beverly Hills Tennis is best known for operating the instructional program at La Cienega Tennis Center since 1995, continuing a tennis history that predates the company through a major reconstruction of the municipal complex at the end of the 1980s. Beverly Hills began work in November 1989 on a $9 million renovation that replaced an eleven-court complex built over an abandoned reservoir with sixteen courts positioned above a 350-space parking structure, accompanied by a pro shop and supporting spaces. Beverly Hills Tennis assumed the concession five years after the new complex was scheduled for completion and subsequently developed a teaching operation spanning private instruction, adult and junior classes, camps and USTA-sanctioned competition. The United States Tennis Association honored La Cienega Tennis Center and Beverly Hills Tennis among the nation's Outstanding Public Tennis Facilities, connecting the scale of the municipal investment with the instructional program that followed it. Hally Cohen joined Beverly Hills Tennis as an instructor in 1999 after playing for Purdue University, competing on the professional and satellite circuits and spending ten seasons as an assistant coach for Long Beach State's women's team, where she participated in seven Big West Conference titles. Cohen became general manager and head professional in September 2009, then won bronze medals in singles and mixed doubles at the 19th Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2013. Scott Crichlow brought another competitive lineage after earning a four-year Seton Hall tennis scholarship, playing Futures and Challenger events, serving as a hitting partner for members of China's Federation Cup team at the 2000 U.S. Open and American Davis Cup player Vince Spadea at the 2001 tournament, then coaching Fairleigh Dickinson to an NCAA national tournament berth. Crichlow joined Beverly Hills Tennis in 2003 and later worked with ATP players at major tournaments, extending a public teaching program into coaching connected directly with collegiate and professional competition.
The Performance Pathway Program concentrates the highest competitive tier into four daily hours combining fitness, stroke drills, mental training and point and match play under Crichlow's direction. Entry is invitation-based, with the 2026 summer group restricted to twelve players aged eleven and older, allowing technical work to feed directly into repeated competitive situations. Adult instruction follows USTA-style levels from introductory 1.0 through advanced 4.0, shifting from basic stroke production toward spin, slice, lobs, transition play, placement and tactical construction as players advance. Group size remains deliberately compact, with standard classes limited to six students per instructor per court and longer clinics reaching eight, preserving enough repetitions for individual technical correction. Junior development follows age and playing level before tournament-oriented training increases footwork intensity, placement demands and competitive point construction. Private coaching, structured group development and the Performance Pathway Program consequently create a continuous route from a first controlled rally through tournament preparation.
How to fold Beverly Hills Tennis into your trip.
Beverly Hills Tennis works as the active anchor for an outing through the southeastern edge of Beverly Hills that connects the city's earliest recorded encounter with Europeans, an engineering project central to municipal independence and one of Wilshire Boulevard's great surviving movie palaces.
Begin at Portolá Trail Campsite No. 2, commemorating the August 3, 1769 passage of Gaspar de Portolá's expedition through the southeastern corner of present-day Beverly Hills. Franciscan chaplain Juan Crespí wrote of wild grapes and abundant rose bushes before the expedition encountered the Indigenous settlement in the area, and California designated the site Historical Landmark No. 665 in 1958, preserving a physical marker for the encounter within the modern city. Continue to Margaret Herrick Library, established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1928 and transferred in 1991 into the former Beverly Hills Waterworks after preservationists helped prevent the building's demolition. Arthur Taylor of Salisbury, Bradshaw & Taylor designed the 1928 plant as a Romanesque-influenced civic structure whose Moorish tower concealed water-purification equipment; its rehabilitation replaced industrial treatment components with archival floors for the Academy's immense film collection and rechristened the complex for Academy co-founder Douglas Fairbanks. Conclude at Saban Theatre, opened as the Fox Wilshire on September 19, 1930 with the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers and designed by prolific theater architect S. Charles Lee for Fox West Coast Theatres. Its original 2,500-seat configuration joined a broad proscenium with silver, black and coral Art Deco decoration, and later widescreen engagements included The Sound of Music before conversion toward live performance in 1980, restoration under Temple of the Arts and National Register recognition in 2012. The progression moves from the Portolá expedition's 1769 encounter through a waterworks whose engineering strengthened Beverly Hills' municipal independence into S. Charles Lee's movie palace for the emerging Wilshire entertainment corridor, compressing more than a century and a half of local development around the tennis center's eastern Beverly Hills setting.
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