Court & ball-stop fencing · Kestrel Park & Dunmoor · Since 2007
The ball stops where the court ends.
Matchpoint builds tennis, pickleball and batting-cage fencing for clubs, schools and backyards — ten-foot backstops on mesh tensioned to the gauge, windscreens rated for the gusts this county actually sends, and gates that self-close behind the fourth player. Court lines measured from the baseline out, not the fence in.
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What we do
Three lines, one baseline
Tennis & pickleball containment — from $46/ln ft
Ten feet of nine-gauge mesh on heavy terminal posts, bottom rail tensioned the length of the run, and the corner radiuses measured from the baseline so a lob dies at the fence instead of on the neighbouring court. Pickleball gets its six-foot containment line at the dink-proof height the association publishes.
Batting cages & backstops — from $88/ln ft
Twelve-foot hung netting on galvanised frames with the cable tensioned by turnbuckle, and a backstop framed to take a hundred cages of foul balls without a sag. The net is the wear item and it is re-hung, not re-sold — the frame we build is the last one the cage will need.
Spectator rails & dugouts — from $34/ln ft
Forty-two-inch rails where the parents stand, mesh infill where the foul balls travel, and dugout screens sized to the league that plays there. School lines add the sightline rule the district asks for — the coach sees the field, the ball stays in it.
Services & rates
The court rate card, spring 2026
Per running foot, installed — posts below the county frost line at 42 inches and terminal assemblies in concrete inside every number. A solid windscreen turns ten feet of mesh into a sail rated for the wrong gust; fifty-percent porosity lets the pressure bleed through, which is why the rating is printed on the quote and the screen comes down before the named storms.
Court perimeter, 10 ft 9-gaugefrom $46/ln ft
tensioned mesh, bottom rail, terminal posts to frost
Pickleball containment, 6 ftfrom $29/ln ft
the association height, same posts
Backstop & batter’s eyefrom $88/ln ft
12 ft hung net on galvanised frame
Windscreen, 50% porosityfrom $9.60/ln ft
the wind-load answer, rating printed
Self-closing court gatefrom $740
spring hinges, slam latch, out-swing
Re-tension & gate servicefrom $590
off-season, one working day
Kestrel Park · Dunmoor · 2024–2026
Courts from the book
Six lines from the last two seasons. The clubs will let you walk theirs in daylight — every court we have fenced is its own reference, and the coaches know our gates.
How a court line goes in
From the measure to the bounce test
A court fence is a tension problem wearing a geometry problem. Both are solved on paper first — the measure, the wind sheet, the schedule — so the crew in your yard is executing, not improvising.
The court measure
Corner radiuses, net-post sleeves, drain crowns and the setback the league asks for — measured from the baseline out, because the fence is the last thing that should decide where the lines land.
The wind sheet
Exposure, prevailing gusts and screen porosity chosen to match — fifty percent where the court faces the open west, none where the hedges already do the work. The rating is printed before you sign.
Set & tension
Terminal posts in concrete below frost, line posts to the schedule, mesh pulled with a come-along and tensioned to the gauge. The bottom rail goes in last and the run reads flat from corner to corner.
The bounce test
A basket of balls fired at the line from the baseline — the mesh answers, the gates self-close behind the last player, and the club gets the maintenance sheet with the re-tension date already on it.
What every court line carries
The scoreline, in numbers
Not aspirations — the specification every Matchpoint line is built to, from the club with eight courts to the backyard with one. The re-tension date is on the maintenance sheet before we leave.
Proof
What the clubs say at the net
Three from the league chairs and the grounds keepers who answer for the fences.
Eight courts, one tensioned run, and the lob that used to end on the practice court next door now dies at the fence every single time. They measured from the baseline out like they said they would — the lines never moved, the fence moved to them.
The windscreen survived the October gusts that took two sections of the old clubhouse awning, because the porosity was chosen from a wind sheet instead of a photo. The screens come down before named storms now — the maintenance sheet says so, and the crew that printed it is the crew that comes.
Our backyard court has a fence taller than the house and a gate my seven-year-old can work one-handed. They walked the yard, found the corner where the grade falls away, and the bottom rail still reads level a season later. The pickleball never leaves the property.
Asked by every league chair
How tall does a backstop really need to be?
A ball leaves the racquet at ninety miles an hour and arrives at the fence at a stroll — physics does the taming. Ten feet catches everything a club needs; backyard courts with a hill behind them sometimes read six. We measure the trajectories your players actually hit before we quote the height.
Will a windscreen tear in the first storm?
A fifty-percent-porosity screen lets most of the pressure through, which is why ours carry a printed gust rating instead of a shrug. Before named storms the strike service takes them down in an afternoon and re-hangs them after — it is on the maintenance sheet, priced, not hoped.
Can you fence around the existing net posts?
Yes, and around the sleeves, the drains and the corner boards — the measure exists for exactly that. The fence is drawn to the court, never the court redrawn to the fence, which is the mistake we are usually hired to fix.
Do you handle the club gates and keys?
Every court line we build ends in gates that self-close and slam-latch, and clubs can add keyed alike hardware across the whole run. The grounds keeper gets the one key that matters, and the fourth player off the court gets a gate that has already shut.
Measure the court. Quote the line.
Send the court count and the club address — a real estimate inside one business day, the measure visit inside the week, and the re-tension date on the calendar before we leave. Kestrel Park, Dunmoor and the school districts between.