Top 100 Tennis Resorts & Camps
 

The overall rankings aside, here is how 2009's Top Resorts and Camps fared in each of more than a dozen individual categories.

 
 

Best Game Matching

  1. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. Taos Tennis at the Quail Ridge Taos, New Mexico
  3. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
  4. Four Seasons Resort & Club, Texas
  5. Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, A Wyndham Grand Resort, Puerto Rico

Best Tennis Staff

  1. Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks at the Palace Hotel, Switzerland
  2. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
  3. Rancho Valencia, an Auberge Resort, California
  4. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
  5. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands

Best Tennis Instruction and Programs

  1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
  2. Wintergreen Resort, Virginia
  3. Sea Colony Resort, Delaware
  4. Rancho Valencia, an Auberge Resort, California
  5. Vic Braden Tennis College at Green Valley Resort, Utah

Best Junior Tennis Programs

  1. Sea Colony Resort, Delaware
  2. Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Florida
  3. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
  4. Saddlebrook Resort, Florida
  5. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas

Best Lodging

  1. Rancho Valencia Resort, California
  2. Palace Hotel Gstaad/Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
  3. Meadowood Napa Valley, California
  4. Rosewood Little Dix Bay, British Virgin Islands
  5. The Inn at Manitou, Ontario, Canada

Best Cuisine

  1. The Phoenician, Arizona
  2. The Palace Hotel, Switzerland
  3. Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, New Hampshire
  4. Longboat Key Club & Resort, Florida
  5. The Lodge at Pebble Beach, California

Best Spa/Fitness Center

  1. Rancho Valencia Resort, California
  2. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
  3. The Broadmoor, Colorado
  4. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
  5. Four Seasons Resort & Club, Texas

Best Setting

  1. Palace Hotel Gstaad/Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
  2. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
  3. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
  4. Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, New Hampshire
  5. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Austria

Best Overall Children's Programs

  1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
  2. Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Florida
  3. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
  4. Sea Colony Resort, Delaware
  5. Waterville Valley Resort, Mew Hampshire

Best for Single Travelers

  1. New England Tennis Holidays at The Essex, Vermont's Culinary Resort & Spa, Vermont (No longer offers camps at this location)
  2. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
  3. New England Tennis Holidays, New Hampshire (No longer offered at this location)
  4. Nike Amherst Tennis Camp, Massachusetts
  5. Total Tennis, New York

Most Romantic

  1. Meadowood Napa Valley, California
  2. Rancho Valencia Resort, California
  3. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
  5. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii

Best Value For Dollar

  1. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
  2. Litchfield Tennis School, South Carolina
  3. Taos Tennis at the Quail Ridge Taos, New Mexico
  4. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire
  5. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida

Top 3 Canadian Resorts

  1. The Inn at Manitou, Ontario
  2. Whistler Racquet Club, British Columbia
  3. Tremblant, Quebec

Top 5 Caribbean/Bermuda/Bahamas Resorts

  1. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
  2. Rosewood Little Dix Bay, British Virgin Islands
  3. The Buccaneer, U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, A Wyndham Grand Resort, Puerto Rico
  5. Four Seasons Resort Great Exuma, Bahamas

Top 3 European Resorts

  1. Palace Hotel Gstaad during Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
  2. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Austria
  3. La Manga Club, Spain

If you'd like to rate any of the resorts or camps you've attended on vacation, visit the Rate a Resort page. All the new information we begin to gather will be used to put together another listing of top resorts next year. For every resort you rate, you'll automatically be enrolled in a drawing for next year's prizes, which in the past have been tennis vacations.