Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are both seeing red after
Spain’s Mutua Madrid Open announced that it would switch from traditional red clay to blue—that’s right, blue clay—for the 2012 tournament. The ATP Tour has given its approval but the two headliners have reservations: Nadal tweeted: “I hope I never have to play a single day on blue clay” while Federer called it “difficult to talk about right now.”
The 22nd Japan Blind Tennis Open begins Nov. 20. Here’s a video about how the sport came about:
Tennis Resorts Online has now entered the blogosphere with new interactive pages devoted to tennis travel, in all its various aspects.
E.J. Kahn III
To get it going, we’ve published E.J. Kahn III’s report about his experiences at the Legends Fantasy Camp at the John Newcombe Tennis Ranch in New Braunfels, Texas. It’s very entertaining.
In addition, check out my report about a weekend at Hawk’s Cay Resort with Cliff Drysdale.
We’re also using these pages to provide timely news snippets, information about current packages, explore tennis-travel issues, answer questions, and most important of all encourage you to provide feedback and commentary. Let us know what you think, suggest topics to cover, and in general help us make this a useful, interactive forum for avid tennis players who travel.
Tennis Resorts Online was founded in 1999 to provide tennis vacationers with in-depth information about the tennis resort and camp landscape worldwide. It combines descriptions of close to 1,000 tennis resorts and adult and junior camps and encourages those who’ve been to any of them on vacation to provide their feedback as well. Its Search form provides a means to hone in on the resorts and camps that best meet your needs. There is also a Calendar of tennis events, a compendium of Special Packages unavailable anywhere else, and our annual ranking of the Top 100 Tennis Resorts & Camps based on reviews submitted by tennis players themselves.
Tennis Resorts Online’s founder and editor-in-chief ROGER COX has spent more than 30 years writing about tennis travel. That long stint included a 17-year stretch for Tennis magazine. Over the years, he has visited more than 350 tennis resorts on five continents and personally participated in over 50 tennis camps—several of them more than once. His informed perspective on the entire tennis resort and tennis camp landscape underpins this website.
