After being absolutely trounced in a tennis match on New Year's Eve 2012, I made a promise to…read moremyself that 2013 would be my year to become a better player. Then I kind of forgot about my promise. Cut to the beginning of 2014: I was finally ready to realize my dreams as an amazing tennis player....or at least be able to hit a serve into that square on the other side of the net. No one in my circle seemed to have time to wedge in a practice with me so I turned to Craigslist and promptly found a dozen strangers who were interested in the game. I consulted Google and ended up using an old-school (but surprisingly helpful) website (www.tennismaps.com) to locate tennis courts between me and my newly found practice partners who hailed from everywhere from Midtown to Buford. That site landed me at the beautiful Hudlow Tennis Center, improbably located just off of Jimmy Carter Blvd, not too far from where it intersects with Buford Highway. Hudlow Tennis Center is a part of Best Friend Park, a 43-acre public park that also contains a playground, a trail, outdoor basketball courts and 2 outdoor pools, baseball fields, indoor badminton courts and a gym amongst it's sprawling grounds. The tennis courts are located towards the back of the property and seem to almost run into a residential street just behind them. There is an actual staffed tennis center that's open during the week until 9:00pm and on weekends until 6:00pm. The center was already closed for the day when I visited on a late Sunday afternoon so I was unable to go inside and explore. From what I could see, it was a well-kept facility with a lobby area that sold drinks and supplies. There were also full bathrooms (showers included) on the inside of the facility. There are 17 lighted courts on the premises. Courts 1-4, located directly to the right of the Tennis Center, supposedly stay lit until 11:00 or 12:00 each night -- this is really cool considering that most courts close up shop by 9:00pm each night. The other 13 courts are located slightly off to the left of the center, just past one of the trails that winds through the park. My impression of the place was that it was a gorgeous, little-used, well-maintained treasure hidden in an unlikely place. The courts were very clean and well-lit. The benches inside the courts and bleachers outside were in great shape. Parking was ample. I felt completely safe in this beautiful park and was almost surprised when I saw a cop car slowly patroling the area. To further sweeten the deal, we didn't have to pay court rental fees because we came on a weekend after the center had closed (after 6:00pm). Normally, the court fees here are $5/hr for singles play and $14 for 2 hours of doubles play. The only downsides I noted was that there didn't appear to be a practice wall and that I wasn't able to locate an external restroom facility in the vicinity of the courts. After having played at another facility a few days before where I had to park far away and pay $20 for 90 minutes of play on a dusty, dirty clay court, this place was like a little unexpected miracle. I have a feeling that I'm going to be logging many hours of play at Hudlow Tennis Center this year, as I prepare to take on my in-laws again during Christmas 2014! http://www.gwinnettcounty.com/portal/gwinnett/Departments/CommunityServices/ParksandRecreation/AdultAthletics#tennis

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Do not come here if you want to get scammed. My nephew was signed up to attend basketball through…read morei9 sports. Samuel Hines was the so called "coach" for the "camp". I say "camp", because it wasn't. The "camp" was unorganized and not structured. This is what happened on the first day of camp. First off, about the facility, I really didn't get the concept of having a hardcourt floor and sand for volleyball together in the same facility because sand was transferring everywhere. Also the place is not sanitary. There are 2 restrooms. The one in the office had a ton of fruit flies flying around and the one in the gym had fruit flies and dead bugs. Plus, the place was tremendously hot. So about the "camp". First, he was the only instructor for the camp, with the exception of his son and another lady....not really sure what their roles were, because they really didn't do anything. There was no formal introductions and no daily agenda to explain what they would be doing for the week. Then he had all the kids lumped into one group... 5-12 year olds. A real basketball camp separates the kids into their own age groups. He also had everyone shoot on the very tall goals and the little kids not having the right size ball. At around 12 noon he separated the big kids and the little kids, but he had the big kids play 2 games and the little ones work on shooting with his son and the other lady. It seemed that he was more interested in the big kids, then everyone as a whole. I don't know who that female "coach" was, but she cannot teach at all. She had to look at her phone several times to figure out what to do. Little kids have a short attention span, and she didn't keep them entertained and the kids were bored. They had the kids together instead splitting them up. The majority of the kids were not focused...they were standing there not paying attention, playing on the net, and not learning anything. Then they broke for lunch at 1:30 pm and watched a show or a movie in the tiny break room. Then after lunch they played in the sandbox for the rest of "camp". Money wasn't paid for him to play in the sandbox for the majority of camp. The purpose of the camp was to learn about the rules and skills about basketball. On Tuesday, this is when I really knew that this was a scam because Mr. Hines was holding another basketball camp for a daycare center while the i9 basketball campers were playing in the sand volleyball court. When we got there, the camp didn't start on time which was scheduled at 9am. So my mom and I went for a walk, and my dad stayed in his truck. When we returned, my dad said that the door to the facility was locked. When the kids from the daycare center arrived they couldn't get in. So the daycare workers had to call Mr. Hines to unlock the door. My dad asked, "why was the door locked", and Mr. Hines replied "because of security reasons". But yesterday, the door to the facility remained unlocked the entire day. So, my mom had to go around to the back to enter into the facility. Once inside she observed that the i9 campers were not participating in their scheduled basketball camp, instead they were playing volleyball in the sand. It was the daycare children who were on the basketball court participating in their basketball camp. So, my mom left and told my dad what was going on, after much discussion she returned an hour later and discovered that they daycare kids were the only ones on the basketball court being taught about basketball, and the i9 campers were taking a break in the sandbox. At that point, my nephew was taken out of camp and did not return. My dad called i9 to explain what happened. I9 refunded our money, and they were going to discuss the situation with Mr. Hines.

Finally a good place to play badminton.. I was surprised when we moved to Atlanta from the Bay area…read morethat there were just 1 or 2 places to play badminton.. and that too those were basketball courts being reused.. This one is good, even though I have to travel 25 minutes to reach there. 4 courts and well lit.. you can reserve the courts online via an app which is very useful during busy times... Reasonable rates per hour if you are playing doubles. Lot of parking available..

Very difficult to find. The name actually reads SVA volleyball club. The owner was there and was…read morefriendly. $35 per month and you can use the court anytime. However it tends to get super busy so you may have to wait for your turns.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice gym with great facilities. The massive red flag to me is the…read morecleanliness and also the staffs response to health violations. I was in the women's bathroom on the second floor and two giant cockroaches came charging after me. Another person said they found a dead cockroach by the pool yesterday as well. I alerted staff that there are several cockroaches and a woman working at the facility said "I'm not sure what you want me to do about it." Nasty business. For some reason it won't let me add a photo of the roach!

Oh what could have been had I chosen to attend Georgia Tech for a Ph.D. in Geophysics... I came to…read morethe Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center in February of 2015 as part of a graduate school visit (all expenses paid) once I had been accepted to a Ph.D. program in Geophysics. I chose to attend a different university for my studies, but am reflecting on my experience at a different school especially in the context of staying physically healthy in graduate school and decided to write this review. The Georgia Tech Campus Recreation Center was not the biggest athletic facility I visited on my graduate school visits, but it was the one with the most homey feel. That is to say it was a bargain deal even if you wanted to partake in classes or offerings that costed money and the design was one I felt comfortable enough in to want to work out here. At the university I ended up attending, I not once used the athletic facilities on campus to work out partly because they lacked a homey feel. Which brings me back to Georgia Tech and this center and how I would have used it had I chosen to attend Georgia Tech for graduate school. The pool was a site of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, which I didn't learn until we visited it in person. This was a pleasant blindside surprise. To boot, when we stopped by the pool the race going on was a 200 yard breaststroke race (my stroke in swimming is breaststroke) which got me all energized. It was my first time visiting a site from a Summer Olympic Games which just so coincidentally also happen to be the first Summer Olympic Games I was alive for. So cool! In addition to a stand out pool, the indoor track was a beauty. I love indoor tracks in buildings with windows, it is fun to watch the weather change as one runs. The track also looked over basketball courts, another fun thing to observe if walking or running on the track and able to see the courts. All around the facility was amazing and had I chosen to attend Georgia Tech for graduate school I would have made frequent and good use of this facility. The only grumbling I heard from current students on my graduate school visit about the facility was how frequently the pool was occupied by swimming and diving championship events and how that hindered students of the school from getting to use the pool themselves.

I love what they did with this playground--especially the small, little track in back. I'm…read moreextremely and fully obsessed with the bathroom facilities, as it has an angular, almost mid-century modern feel to it. nice to have something like this for kids down the road a spell from the tennis center. we will for sure go back!

This park spans 50 acres and is more of a recreation complex. There are two entrances and the…read morepark's drive has somewhat of a U-shape. It has a couple of baseball fields, a tennis complex with a bunch of courts, and a couple of soccer fields. They are all very nice, but they are not opened to the public and are locked to keep people out. You need a permit to use the baseball and soccer fields. The tennis courts are managed through the tennis complex on site. As an added bonus most of the courts and fields are lighted for night play. You will find an ample amount of parking available here, spread between lots all throughout the park. The park also features a nice and extensive trail system for bikers, walkers and joggers. You will find a little green space to toss a ball around or have a picnic. There are also gliders swings and benches available to sit and enjoy. There are dog clean up stations all over the park and they have a monument of sorts in memorial of the 8 people killed in the 2021 anti-asian spa shootings. The memorial features a nice golden statue of an asian woman sitting down. The park has a huge shelter that is available to rent. The shelter has a bunch of picnic tables under it and a grill just outside of it. The park has two playground area. The smaller one is by the baseball fields. It has a small play structure with monkey bars and a slide. This play area also has toddler swings. The other playground, on the other side of the park, is much larger. There is where you will find wood balance beams, saucer swings, a large net structure, slides, and a net climber. There are bathroom facilities near both play areas, with the larger, and in my opinion better one being on the side with the larger playground. The park is a nice place to hold local events the Brookhaven Cherry Blossom Festival, food truck Wednesdays in the summer, and Light Up Brookhaven in the winter is held here. I like this playground. It is very well maintained. However, much of its amenities are private and require a permit. Most of the park's visitors that I saw during my visit were taking advantage of the park's trails. There were no kids on the play ground. Being a hot weekday may have something to do with that. I do feel this is a destination park unless you are attending an event here.