In the six players on the tennis court at noon on a Friday in Beverly Hills, I check two Cartier watches and a rolex. There are tennis skirts combined with thick sweaters and white sneakers and bag bags with university embroidery. From behind sunglasses and baseball caps, members seem to be in their twenty years to thirty years. But it doesn't matter how much the scene may resemble a field club inherited at first glance, this meeting exists almost in opposition to the handful of expensive clubs of the city with waiting lists of years and long membership requirements.
Kacper Owsian greets someone to his tennis clinic in Beverly Hills.
(Emil Ravelo / for the times)
This is Sunset Tennis Club, a membership -based tennis club that operates in a series of courts in the exclusive neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Founded at the beginning of 2023 by Anna and Kacper Owsian, the organization considers itself as a “floating tennis club,” said Anna, only without the entrance barriers that set aside many millennials and zoomers.
Once a couple, now commercial partners, Anna and Kacper emigrated to Los Angeles from Poland at the end of 2022. The couple met more than a decade playing tennis in the city of Poznań, where Kacper, an old professional tennis, followed in the footsteps of their family training in a Tennis and Anna club, who worked to have fun in the fashion and well -being industries. When the two moved to Los Angeles, they, like many recent transplants, fought to find the community. They used their mutual love for tennis as a way of making friends, establishing an appointment to play once a week, followed by nights for dinner and drinks. From there, the idea of starting the club was born as a business.
Living in the rich Brentwood at that time, they were inspired by the aesthetics of the life of the field club, even if they could not participate. Anna wanted to give her experience in fashion to the brand of a tennis club that was “more than a place to play, but the sport we love, reinvented for the new generation.” Kacper could teach. The first official Tennis Secet club began once a week in Beverly Hills, which was attended by a small group of friends of friends.
Sunset Tennis Club sells unique clinics or lessons of small groups separated by level. Kacper still teaches, but they also use a handful of coaches. Despite its lack of a single lock and mortar location, the club is executed in a membership model. Anyone who can afford to invest a few hundred dollars in their game can instantly join through the brand's website. Membership has levels, depending on the frequency with which one wants to participate in clinics. Four clinics for beginners per month cost $ 200, while attending 12 ranges of $ 480-540 depending on the level of experience of the member. Complementary private lessons are available.
The club plays in six locations, including Beverly Hills, Hancock Park and Brentwood, all of which are in private properties, which are accessed through the personal relationships of the founders.
Sunset Tennis Club has arrived in Los Angeles at a time when racket sports are in popularity. According to a 2024 study conducted by Racquetx, a conference for racket sports professionals, the category, which includes tennis, pickleball, squash, Badminton and table tennis, has grown 30% since 2021. Tennivers in the United States increased from 1.9 million players to 25.7 million players in 2024, their fifth consecutive year of growth in the United States. The founders say that until now in 2025, Sunset Tennis Club has hosted 1,000 players in their 25 weekly clinics and rotating events monthly.
Anna and Kacper Owsian organize a tennis clinic in Beverly Hills.
(Emil Ravelo / for the times)
His growing membership can have so much to do with the sport of tennis as the fashion associated with him does. Amanda Gareley, owner of Racket Sports Fashion Spence, argues that the increase in tennis popularity is the result of photogenic nature, but also the desire to connect society.
“Tennis looks good on Instagram, but I also believe that it takes advantage of something deeper: tennis is social. In a world where so much fitness has become lonely (rotating bicycles, training camps, applications, tennis offers a real connection and in person. It is active and communal.”
Even if someone can join Sunset tennis clubs, that does not mean that their events are completely devoid of the arrogance of old money often seen on the Los Angeles tennis courts. The organization operates “between public courts and field clubs … something that is accessible to people, but at the same time a little more exclusive and more unique,” said Anna.
Anna Owsian at her tennis clinic
(Emil Ravelo / for the times)
Outside access to private courts, the feeling of exclusivity comes from the brand and membership of the Sunset Tennis Club, which tends to share an affinity for the whites of crisp and beautiful watches. The Sunset Tennis Club's Instagram Feed resembles that of a fashion brand. Influencers such as Aimee song by Song of Style and makeup artist Kardashian Mary Phillips are known by frequent clinics. Beyond the tennis classes, membership includes access to social events that range from watches in boutique hotels to invitations to private boxes in tennis tournaments. Recently, the club associated with the company of clothing to give to the members of a tennis outfit and an invitation to their private suite in the BNP Paribas Open high profile in the desert of the fifth, providing members with a daily life a sample of the life of the angels. Chelsea Ma, a 28 -year -old producer who discovered Sunset Tennis Club through an Instagram ad, attends a clinic with the group once a week. She says she has also made close friends through the club, some of whom traveled.
“I was already playing tennis once or twice a week, but I knew I wanted to improve,” said Ma. “It was difficult to find friends who wanted to play tennis regularly [before joining] … The club is unique. Take advantage of a lifestyle that its members already live but through the base of tennis. “
Like its typical field club, there is a clothing code in Sunset Tennis Club Clinics: Tennis targets or total clothing are required. In most courts, the group logo is shown in the networks and can be seen in the context of the Instagram photos carefully raised on the court. On Friday I visited in Beverly Hills, the house music by Rufus du Sol touched gently from a speaker while we practiced drills. Even with all those little details, the experience was not exactly the Ritz. The members parked on the street, the access to the bathroom varied the court by the court and there was no place to take a Cobb salad later. But aesthetically and tonally, smells of wealth are available to those who want a taste.
