About the club
La Pera is a private family grass court at about 2,400 metres in the highlands of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, near the town of La Esperanza. It was built during the 2020 lockdowns and sown with fescue, after Bermuda grass and perennial ryegrass proved unsuitable or hard to source. A local welder made the equipment: the roller is a repurposed gas tank filled with cement, and the line marker was built from reference photographs. The court measures a slightly modified 16 by 35 metres, with slanted corners that preserve the mature pear tree that gives it its name; the tree bore no fruit for three years after construction and now yields hundreds of pears a year. Twice a year the family holds a mixed doubles tournament of round-robin match tie-breaks, with exhibition doubles and children's activities. Access is by special enquiry through the family-owned Cantabria Country Club, about a kilometre away. Play…
