The overall rankings aside, here is how 2008's Top Resorts and Camps fared in each of more than a dozen individual categories.

Best Game Matching

1. Four Seasons Resort & Club, Texas
2. Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa, California
3. Taos Tennis at the Quail Ridge Taos, New Mexico
4. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
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. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Vermont
3. Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, New Hampshire
4. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
5. New England Tennis Holidays, New Hampshire

Best Junior Tennis Programs

1. Sea Colony Resort, Delaware
2. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
3. Wintergreen Resort, Virginia
4. Saddlebrook Resort, Florida
5. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina

Best Setting

1. Palace Hotel Gstaad/Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
2. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Austria
3. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
4. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
5. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire

Best Lodging

1. Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa, California
2. The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina
3. Palace Hotel Gstaad/Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
4. The Inn at Manitou, Ontario, Canada
5. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona

Best Cuisine

1. The Inn at Manitou, Ontario, Canada
2. Rancho Valencia Resort, California
3. Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, New Hampshire
4. The Inn at Essex, Vermont
5. Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, North Carolina

Best Spa/Fitness Center

1. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
2. Four Seasons Resort & Club, Texas
3. Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa, California
4. Lodge at Pebble Beach, California
5. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Vermont

Best Overall Children's Programs

1. Sea Colony Resort, Delaware
2. Wild Dunes Resort, South Carolina
3. Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Florida
4. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
5. Wintergreen Resort, Virginia

Best for Single Travelers

1. New England Tennis Holidays at the Inn at Essex, Vermont
2. Nike Amherst Tennis Camp, Massachusetts
3. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
4. New England Tennis Holidays, New Hampshire
5. Total Tennis, New York

Most Romantic

1. The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina
2. The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Arizona
3. Rancho Valencia Resort and Spa, California
4. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
5. The Inn at Manitou, Ontario, Canada

Best Value For Dollar

1. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida
2. Taos Tennis at the Quail Ridge Taos, New Mexico
3. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire
4. Litchfield Tennis School, South Carolina
5. Northstar-at-Tahoe, California

Top 3 Canadian Resorts

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

Top 3 Caribbean Resorts

1. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
2. Four Seasons Resort Nevis, Nevis, West Indies
3. The Buccaneer, U.S. Virgin Islands

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.

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