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Top 100 Tennis Resorts & Camps

May 1, 2009. This is the 10th year that Tennis Resorts Online has published a list of top tennis resorts and camps. As usual, we have broken the results down into two large groups: the Top 75 Tennis Resorts and the Top 25 Tennis Camps. Among the resorts, Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina seized the No. 1 spot for a tennis vacation, as it had in 2006 and 2007. Among the camps, Roy Emerson Tennis Holidays in Switzerland repeated as the best in its category.
The source for these rankings comes from vacationers like you: people who pay for their holiday and thus have every reason to be objective about the experience. For 2009, Tennis Resorts Online's survey asked players to assess resorts and camps in 20 categories. Those included not only all aspects of the tennis experience but also such diverse off-court characteristics as the quality of the lodging, restaurants, children's programs, and value for dollar. Those reviews were

then tabulated in order to determine a numerical ranking using a formula that gives added weight to the tennis elements.
To ensure that these results were statistically meaningful, we required a minimum of 25 reviews for a resort to qualify for a Top 10 ranking or for a camp to qualify for one of the top 5 places. All others had to receive at a minimum of 10 reviews over the past year. Resorts also had to have a minimum of six tennis courts. Only reviews associated with a valid email address counted toward the rankings.
For the Top 25 Resorts—our Gold Medal Resorts—we have published the actual numerical rankings. The next 50 on the list have been divided into two groups: our Silver Medal Resorts—those ranked No. 25-50—and our Bronze Medal Resorts—those ranked No. 51-75. Silver and Bronze medal winners are published in alphabetical order. Camps, like the top 25 resorts, are ranked in order of finish.

 

Gold Medal Resorts

Top 25 Tennis Resorts

  1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
  2. Rancho Valencia, an Auberge Resort, California
  3. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
  4. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
  5. Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, South Carolina
  6. Topnotch Resort and Spa, Vermont
  7. Saddlebrook Resort, Florida
  8. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
  9. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida
  10. Wild Dunes, South Carolina
Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, South Carolina
  1. La Quinta Resort & Club, California
  2. The Broadmoor, Colorado
  3. Sea Colony Resort, Delaware
  4. Wintergreen Resort, Virginia
  5. Four Seasons Resort and Club, Texas
  6. Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, New Hampshire
  7. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol, Austria
  8. Desert Springs, A JW Marriott Resort & Spa, California
  1. Longboat Key Club & Resort, Florida
  2. Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Florida
  3. Port Royal Racquet Club, South Carolina
  4. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire
  5. Sandestin Golf & Beach Resort, Florida
  6. Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, North Carolina
  7. The Inn at Manitou, Ontario, Canada
  8. Naples Grande Beach Resort, Florida

Silver Medal Resorts

Resorts Nos. 27-50 (listed alphabetically)

Bronze Medal Resorts

Resorts Nos. 51-75 (listed alphabetically)

Top 25 Tennis Camps

Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks at the Palace Hotel, Gstaad, Switzerland
  1. Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
  2. New England Tennis Holidays, New Hampshire
  3. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
  4. Wintergreen Tennis Academy, Virginia
  5. Vic Braden Tennis College, Green Valley Spa, Utah
  1. Saddlebrook Tennis (Hopman), Florida
  2. Topnotch Tennis Academy, Vermont
  3. Whistler Adult Tennis Camps, BC Canada
  4. PBI Tennis Camp at Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol Austria
  5. New England Tennis Holidays at Essex Resort & Spa, Vermont
  6. Reed Anderson Tennis School, California
  7. Peter Kaplan's Westhampton Beach Tennis Academy, New York
  8. NIKE Amherst Adult Tennis Camp, Massachusetts
  9. Dennis Ralston Tennis Camps at Mission Hills, California
  10. Van der Meer Tennis, Shipyard, South Carolina
  11. Litchfield Tennis School, South Carolina
  12. Ramey Tennis Schools, Kentucky
  13. Swarthmore Tennis Camps, Pennsylvania
  14. Stan Smith Tennis Academy, Sea Pines, South Carolina
  15. Bollettieri Tennis Academy, Florida
  16. Academia Sanchez-Casal Adult Camp, Florida
  17. Total Tennis, New York
  18. Desert Tennis Academy, Shadow Mountain, California
  19. Brady Tennis Camp, California
  20. Northstar-at-Tahoe Tennis Camps, California

View 2009 Rankings by Category

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 the rankings for 2010. Entrants are eligible to win valuable prizes in a drawing among those who submit reviews.