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Tennis Resorts Online: The Leading Guide to Tennis Travel

Top 100 Tennis Resorts & Camps
  

May 1, 2011. Ask 10 avid tennis players to name the best tennis resort and chances are you'll get 10 different answers. So each year, Tennis Resorts Online solicits the opinions of thousands of racquet-wielding vacationers worldwide and compiles their collective experience into our annual ranking of the Top 100 Tennis Resorts and Camps. As usual, we have broken the results down into two major categories: the Top 75 Tennis Resorts and the Top 25 Tennis Camps. Among the resorts, Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina once again seized the No. 1 spot for a tennis vacation, while Roy Emerson Tennis Holidays in Switzerland repeated as the best of the tennis camps, dominating their respective competition in much the way Roger Federer used to do.
What is not immediately evident here, however, is just how tight the competition has always been. Just as hundredths of a second may sometimes separate a Gold Medal from a Silver or Bronze in the Olympics, an equally small fraction of points separates the top competitors from each other and the rest of the field. In order to fully assess the tennis resort or camp experience, we ask vacationers to assess each property in 17 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. (To see which fared best in individual area, see Categories.) 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 (though a few ranked 51 to 75 received less). Only reviews associated with a valid email address counted. Finally, although we encourage reviews of all types of properties, only resorts having a minimum of six tennis courts are eligible to be ranked.
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.
Make no mistake, however, all of those listed here have a proven record of catering well to the needs of avid tennis players. The choice comes down to one final issue: Which one suits you best?
 

Gold Medal Resorts

Top 25 Tennis Resorts

  1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
  2. Rancho Valencia, an Auberge Resort, California
  3. La Quinta Resort & Club, California
  4. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol, Austria
  5. Wild Dunes, South Carolina
  6. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands
  7. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
  8. Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, South Carolina
  9. Topnotch Resort and Spa, Vermont
  10. Longboat Key Club & Resort, Florida
Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, South Carolina
  1. JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, California
  2. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida
  3. Four Seasons Resort Nevis, West Indies
  4. The Sea Pines Resort, South Carolina
  5. The Broadmoor, Colorado
  6. Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Florida
  7. The Boulders, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, Arizona
  8. Boca Raton Resort & Club, Florida
  1. Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Florida
  2. Wintergreen Resort, Virginia
  3. Punta Mita Resort, Nayarit, Mexico
  4. Four Seasons Resort and Club, Texas
  5. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire
  6. Saddlebrook Resort, Florida
  7. Naples Grande Beach Resort, Florida

Silver Medal Resorts

Resorts Nos. 26-50 (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 at Gstaad Palace, Switzerland
  2. New England Tennis Holidays at Sugarbush, Vermont
  3. Cliff Drysdale Tennis School at Stratton, Vermont
  1. PBI Tennis Camp at Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol Austria
  2. Saddlebrook Tennis (Hopman), Florida
  3. Topnotch Tennis Academy, Vermont
  4. Wintergreen Tennis Academy, Virginia
  5. Reed Anderson Tennis School at Mission Hills, California
  6. Vermont Tennis Vacations at The Essex, Vermont
  7. Stan Smith Tennis Academy, Sea Pines, South Carolina
  8. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
  9. IMG Bollettieri Tennis Academy, Florida
  10. Sea Colony Tennis Camp, Delaware
  11. Northstar-at-Tahoe Tennis Camps, California
  12. Whistler Adult Tennis Camps, BC Canada
  13. Dave Marshall Tennis, Delaware
  14. Van Der Meer Tennis, Shipyard, South Carolina
  15. Litchfield Tennis School, South Carolina
  16. Peter Kaplan's Westhampton Beach Tennis Academy, New York
  17. Evert Tennis Academy at Boca Raton Resort, Florida
  18. NIKE Amherst Adult Tennis Camp, Massachusetts
  19. Total Tennis, New York
  20. Court Think Tennis Camps at Green Valley, Utah
  21. Desert Tennis Academy, Shadow Mountain, California
  22. Ramey Tennis Schools, Kentucky

View 2011 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 2012. Entrants are eligible to win valuable prizes in a drawing among those who submit reviews.