Fences are breaking at the foundation. Paint is peeling off the ground and every court has cracks. The fences have holes, the gates don’t lock and the surfacing is a trip hazard. All of this is occurring at UB’s “world-class tennis facility.”
The result: the men’s and women’s tennis teams will not be able to host the Mid-American Conference Championships at UB, despite earning the right to do so by winning their respective MAC titles last year.
The University Tennis Center, next to the Ellicott Complex, is unusable, although UB resurfaced the courts this past summer. The Spectrum asked Athletics how much the resurfacing cost, who oversaw it and when, but Associate Athletic Director for Broadcasting and Communications Dan Enser said the department had “no comment.