One toss.
One nation's game.
Soaring through the
clean mountain air.
Thimphu, Bhutan · 27.47° N · 2,350 metres (7,710 ft) above sea level
6 hard courts in the heart of town in Thimphu — open to our Bhutanese community, tourists who want to experience tennis at high elevations, and host to international tournaments.
Play in Bhutan.
Compete with the world.
Take home the memory.
01 — The place
Most people come to Bhutan for the mountains. Then they find the courts.
The National Tennis Centre sits on the floor of the Thimphu valley at Changlimithang, 2,334 metres above the sea, ringed by blue pine forest and the eastern Himalaya.
The air is thin here. The ball carries further, the rallies run longer, and the light coming down the valley in the late afternoon is the thing players tend to remember once they are home.
Tennis reached Bhutan in the 1970s. The Federation was founded in 1983. Four decades on, these are the courts where the national team trains — and where anyone can ask for a game.
02 — Who plays here
You came to Thimphu for the conference. You'll go home talking about the tennis.
Delegates, consultants and engineers posted here for a month have been taking out memberships and playing after hours — mountain air, floodlights, and a game against locals who will beat you more often than you expect.
Six international members · testimonials to be added
Blake: names, photos and a line each, and this becomes the most persuasive section on the page.
03 — The community
One valley. Six courts. Everybody on the same baseline.
In most countries the visiting player, the club family and the national squad never meet. In Thimphu they share a court.
Members bring their families. Children run between the benches while their parents play out a third set. People arrive as opponents and leave as friends, and a fair amount of the club's important business gets done sitting courtside afterwards.
Membership is open to Bhutanese residents and to visitors staying a month or more.
Everyday afternoons at Changlimithang
Dream.
Play.
Achieve.
04 — The next generation
Every membership puts a racquet in a Bhutanese child's hand.
Junior development is not a side programme for the Federation — it is the point of it. Little Champs for the five to nines, winter camps, school outreach, and a pathway that runs from a borrowed racquet in a schoolyard to an ITF ranking.
In 2026 Bhutan held its first National Junior Tennis Championship — a full draw of Bhutanese children, floodlights on, the whole club watching. Four decades after the Federation was founded, it was the first of its kind.
From 2027 that becomes a ten-year national framework: a clear route from school courts to the world stage, backed by proper coaching, proper facilities and proper governance.
Prize giving · Bhutan Tennis Federation
05 — 2027 to 2037
A ten-year national development framework built on nine strategic pillars — from governance and coaching to infrastructure, competition and tennis tourism.
Phase 1 · 2027–2029
Build the systems, upgrade the facilities, take tennis into schools and form the first partnerships.
Phase 2 · 2030–2033
A national stadium in Thimphu, programmes at scale, and Bhutan hosting international junior events.
Phase 3 · 2034–2037
Professional events hosted in Bhutan, a second stadium at Gelephu, and players who can hold their own anywhere.
Targets from the BTF 10-Year National Tennis Development Framework, 2027–2037
06 — Plan a visit
Coming to Thimphu for work, for the mountains, or to bring a tournament to Bhutan? Tell us your dates and we will have a court, a partner and a coach ready for you.