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# Huge Sports Complex Returning To Gravesend
- URL: https://bklyner.com/huge-sports-complex-coming-to-coney-island-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2013-02-04T20:00:32.000Z
- Updated: 2013-02-04T19:46:44.000Z
- Author: wsimpson
- Tags: dancing, matchpoint nyc, sergey rybak, shell rd, sports complex, #API-Imported

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Source: Brownstoner. Click to enlarge

Tennis anyone?

The popular racquet sport, along with yoga, swimming and dancing, are returning to the intersection of Shell Road and Avenue Z in Gravesend in what is set to be Brooklyn’s largest sports complex.

Sheepshead Bites first learned about the deal from the broker, Brian Hanson of Massey Knakel Realty Services, and now a report by [Brownstoner](http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013/02/massive-sports-complex-underway-in-coney-island/?ref=bklyner.com) provides a few new details.

Costing $20 million, the 140,000 square-foot complex, dubbed MatchPoint NYC, will feature a whopping nine indoor tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a restaurant. It replaces the Brooklyn Racquet Club, which closed in 2011 and was later demolished.

Set to open in six months, the facility – developed by Dmitry Druzhinsky and tennis coach Noumroud Moukhatasov, and spearheaded by entrepreneur Sergey Rybak – will provide an outlet to accommodate for [the huge Russian love of tennis](http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080105/94769155.html?ref=bklyner.com).