WILSONEZ Tennis Net

This product is fantastic! I love it! It is very light-weight and easy to assemble. In fact it is so light weight that you will need to add a sandbag or some kind of weight to a leg on each end, (I add a paver stone to each side).If you don't add this stone or some kind of weight (about 10 lbs) to each end, the net will pull the uprights together too much and you get a sag in the middle. (To be honest, the company should add two 10-lb sandbags to the kit and instruct you to put one on the right leg, one on the left leg, but this is a minor point).It has been well worth the money. I am 56 and don't feel like driving up to the courts in my neighborhood which are often already in use anyway. I put this across the end of my driveway so that my driveway becomes one side of the court (mini-court) while the other half of the court is in the cul-de-sac. We make our own rules around stupid Covid!!I teach my neighbor's daughter who is only 6. She already knows how to assemble the net with me and she fetches the paver stones to put weight on the legs. I have very tiny spots of gray spray paint in the street and on my driveway that show the court corners and mid-lines, etc. My neighbor's daughter holds one end of my tape measure and we connect the paint dots in a straight line. Then I make the court marks with sidewalk chalk. Has to be redone after every rain, but it only takes 15 minutes and the paint marks in street and my driveway are imperceptible unless you're really looking for them. Trying to respect the beauty of the street and property.The kids in the neighborhood love it and I let em all play. Some adults have come out to play too! So much more fun on a mini-court at my age! (Only half the normal running back n forth). We use the kind of tennis balls for kids that have no interior pressure. You can hit as hard as on a regular court and they don't go so hard or fast but make a very nice THWACK!! when you hit the ball.Honestly I have more fun these days with this little net than at a standard court.Believe me, while this is great for young kids 6 years and up, it is also great fun for adults!!I can submit pictures of my cul-de-sac set-up with court dimensions if anyone is interested.

This product is the perfect size for grade school kids. The 10 ft size is small enough to fit in small yards, and the net is well-organized and extremely easy to put together and take down. A bungee cord inside of the tubes keeps the sections together so that all you need to do is stretch it straight and fit the sections into each other. Its height can be raised for badminton or lowered for tennis. When taken apart, the entire net fits into a small, slim bag, and is not that heavy. It stands on its own and does not need to be staked, so it can be used on grass or on a hard surface. It probably would not withstand rough play, but it seems sturdy enough for its intended use.

Pros:- Great net for playing tennis with the kids in the driveway.- I have also used it as a badminton net with the kids and with adults. Adults found it to be a lot of fun even when playing doubles.- It sets up super quickly and overall is a great net.Cons:- Due to it only being 10 feet wide it does make a narrow net for playing badminton with adults if you want to play doubles, though for casual players it still works pretty well. I think if they had just added another 2 feet width it would have been perfect.- The netting itself is perfect for tennis balls but a little too wide for badminton shuttlecocks since occasionally a fast paced one will go right through the net. This doesn't happen all the time but enough where it can sometimes be hard to tell if it went through.

I had two needs for my nets and this 5 star review is based on the fact that two of these 10 foot portable nets perfectly met my needs.I needed then to be durable and set up quickly and be portable, that is, easily transportable in a small passenger vehicle. These nets set up quickly and are durable for outside use and fold up to carry very easily. They met all these needs.I wanted them for beginner kids, to add a "second net" for the beginners while the intermediate kids could play full-court. I do not buy into the entire USTA "Quick Start" stuff but I do use foam balls with beginners to get them rallying with each other and I switch to yellow balls when the kids are capable or rallying with the yellow balls.I teach an afterschool elementary school tennis program outdoors and do private beginner "Quick Start" lessons although I don't buy into the low-compression balls (I think they bounce way way tooooo low) or the weird lines on the court. There is always a way to teach by using regular balls and what exists already on the court and throw-down lines without permanently marking up a perfectly good tennis court.My other needs is that I do private lessons with adults and I wanted to be able to raise the regular net up about three feet for deep ball drills to emphasize topspin and high net clearance and I put two of these ten foot nets together and raised them up to the "badminton height" so that it basically just makes a regular tennis net three feet higher if you set it up parallel to the existing net on the court and is perfect for the adult deep ball drill.For any parent with a kid or kids who play tennis and you have a driveway, you could probably not make a better investment than this net and some foam balls.And the cost was very reasonable.

We recently purchased a net prior to this one and it was a pain to put up, keep up and put away. This Wilson EX net is extremely easy to put up....within minutes of taking it out of the box it was up and was ready to be played with. All parts are connected and fold down to put it away! The kids love this net! Hours of fun in the backyard playing with it! Hoping that it will be in our family for a long time. Great family fun outdoors! This net is sturdy and does the job!