Free summer tennis and reading program run by the Boston nonprofit Tenacity in partnership with Boston's Parks and Recreation Department, held at municipal parks and a few DCR sites across the city. Each session mixes tennis and fitness activities with light reading activities, and the 2026 program runs Monday-Friday from July 6 to August 14: mornings 9:00am-12:00pm for ages 6-10 and afternoons 1:00pm-3:45pm for ages 10-15, with Harbor Point, Ringer Playground and Carter Playground offering mornings only. It has run since 1999, serves nearly 4,200 Boston youth a year, and is free of charge; the partnership also employs around 100 Boston teenagers and young adults as staff, and all site leaders and staff 18 and older are USTA Safe Play certified.
The practical details
We list only what the camp itself publishes, and programs change — dates, prices, ages and availability can all move after we check. Confirm the details on the camp’s own website and contact Tenacity directly before you register or pay. Last checked August 2026.
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★Paavo CareyTenacity tries to cherry pick the best students in your school thereby undermining the school's in house curriculum. All they seem to care about is getting enough numbers of top students to fund their programs. Not a team player!
★★★★★AnnWonderful organization that introduces kids to tennis and promotes literacy.
★シSwoozyMy son went here because he wanted to learn how to play tennis and I really thought Tenacity would practice tennis skills and make him a better tennis player but turns out they don’t! Asked my son what he learned they said they taught him nothing and the counselors just sit around! Considering taking my son off the program.
★Najah SMicayla from the Hunt-Almont park site HITS kids!!! I left an email and a VM with Ned Eames the CEO and no call back!!! I ended up taking my son out of the program. She still works there!!!
★QuisiWorse counselors ever! Swearing, on phones all day, only practice tennis when they know someone from the program is coming. Cancel camp days without permission from the program.