Beach Tennis
Take the fun and fast-paced sport of tennis, combine it with sun, sea and sand, and you have the perfect antidote for beach boredom. Beach tennis merges tennis and beach volleyball into one exciting competitive and recreational sport that anyone can play. First played in the late 1990s in Brazil and Holland, beach tennis hit the Aruba shores in 2002. The scoring is basically the same as that of regular tennis - 15-30-40. Played on a regulation beach volleyball court using tennis racquets, two players on each team volley back and forth, hitting a tennis ball directly over the net without letting it bounce. As in tennis and badminton, one hit per team is all you get; unlike volleyball, passing the ball to your partner is not allowed. Most importantly, just have fun!
Sjoerd de Vries, a Dutch tennis pro living on Aruba for more than a decade, is the driving force behind beach tennis and is also credited with introducing it on Aruba. International Beach Tennis Championships have been held here attracting hundreds of international participants. National Beach Tennis Championships take place every June. The lively Moomba Beach area is the perfect venue for this fast-paced and very social event. 