Tennis Resorts Online: The Leading Guide to Tennis Travel

The overall rankings aside, here is how 2012's Top Resorts and Camps fared in each of more than a dozen individual categories.

Best Game Matching

1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
2. Hidden Dunes Beach & Tennis Resort, Florida
3. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
4. Seabrook Island Club, South Carolina
5. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida

Best Tennis Instruction and Staff

1. Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks at the Palace Hotel, Switzerland
2. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
3. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Vermont
4. Reed Anderson Tennis School at Mission Hills Country Club, California
5. Wild Dunes, South Carolina

Best Tennis Programing

1. JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, California
2. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
3. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida
4. Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, South Carolina
5. Wild Dunes, South Carolina

Best Junior Tennis Programs

1. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
2. Four Seasons Resort Nevis, West Indies
3. Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, South Carolina
4. Saddlebrook Resort, Florida
5. Sea Colony, Delaware

Best Lodging

1. Gstaad Palace, Switzerland
2. Rancho Valencia, California
3. Rosewood Little Dix Bay, British Virgin Islands
4. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
5. The Broadmoor, Colorado

Best Cuisine

1. Gstaad Palace, Switzerland
2. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Austria
3. The Lodge at Pebble Beach, California
4. Topnotch Resort and Spa, Vermont
5. The Broadmoor, Colorado

Best Spa/Fitness Center

1. The Boulders, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, Arizona
2. Gstaad Palace, Switzerland
3. Boca Raton Resort & Club, Florida
4. Four Seasons Resort & Club, Texas
5. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina

Best Setting

1. Gstaad Palace/Roy Emerson Tennis Weeks, Switzerland
2. Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Austria
3. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
4. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, St. John, USVI
5. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire

Best Overall Children's Programs

1. Wild Dunes, South Carolina
2. Kiawah Island Golf Resort, South Carolina
3. Four Seasons Resort Nevis, West Indies
4. Sea Colony, Delaware
5. Stratton Mountain Resort, Vermont

Best for Single Travelers

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

Most Romantic

1. Gstaad Palace, Switzerland
2. Rancho Valencia, California
3. The Boulders, Arizona
4. Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
5. Caneel Bay, A Rosewood Resort, U.S. Virgin Islands

Best Value For Dollar

1. John Newcombe Tennis Ranch, Texas
2. Port Royal Racquet Club, South Carolina
3. TOPS'L Beach & Racquet Resort, Florida
4. Waterville Valley Resort, New Hampshire
5. Hidden Dunes Beach & Tennis Resort, Florida

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.