If you love the sport of tennis, you’ll surely love tennis camps. Tennis camps offer tennis instructions or lessons at the same time experiencing fun and enjoyment. Most tennis camps would offer instructional programs for tennis players of different ability levels and ages, from beginners to top tournament players. Tennis camps are an excellent and exciting way of developing not only your skills for the game but growth in self-confidence as well; you get to meet, mingle and have fun with different people who share one common interest, Tennis.
Tennis camps all over the globe have been established by people who have considered tennis a companion for life, so to speak. In fact, a lot of owners of tennis camps are either former professional players of tennis or aficionados of the game. Not to mention well-known brands of tennis products have their own tennis camps too. It only goes to prove that tennis camps are in one way or another, a very feasible dealing because of the still growing number of tennis fans, ranging from kids to teenagers, to adults and even seniors. Tennis camps have become famous too together with the game itself, because of its appeal to families who in one way or another want to spend quality time together while playing their favorite sport -fun, excitement, enjoyment- and what a better way to do it than going to tennis camps. Most of the camps offer half-day, the whole day, or overnight camp arrangements. Activities for these different packages would vary but would usually include an hour – three hours of instructional lessons for tennis and a meal(s), but again that depends on the camp of your choice.
Here are some great tennis camps:
New England Tennis Holidays (North Conway, New Hampshire)
They put campers up in nearby condos, a mountain lodge, or a New England inn, and then ensure post-clinic camaraderie by adding group dinners at various restaurants in the area hosted by one or more of the pros. The morning session begins with drills to rock music as a way of warming up, and that is followed by group instruction tailored to the skills and experience of each individual group. The three-hour morning sessions eventually cover all the major strokes as well as single and double strategy. There are five red-clay courts set in the embrace of the stadium and four indoor hard courts, which can be used in case of inclement weather.
Palace Hotel Gstaad / Roy Emerson Tennis Week (CH-3780 Gstaad, Switzerland)
One of the Leading Hotels of the World, the turreted Palace Hotel is a landmark in Switzerland’s Saane Valley, two hours east of Geneva. Though best-known in the United States for its skiing, this mountain village is if anything even more beautiful in summer and fall. And it’s then, in fact, that tennis legend Roy Emerson arrives to conduct six-day tennis camps on the hotel’s four red-clay courts. For tennis players, the reason to come is Roy Emerson. Personable and outgoing, this winner of 12 Grand Slam singles titles runs 5-hour-a-day clinics.
Wintergreen Resort (Wintergreen, Virginia)
Wintergreen spills down the slopes of Virginia’s the Blue Ridge Mountains roughly 45 miles west of Charlottesville. A master-planned private resort, it begins 3,800 feet above sea level at Devil’s Knob, where it overlooks the Shenandoah Valley, and ends in the valley of the Rockfish River. Its physical beauty aside, one reason to choose Wintergreen, especially in the summer, is that temperatures at Devil’s Knob are typically 10 to 15 degrees cooler than those in the surrounding lowlands. There are two tennis complexes at Wintergreen: a small four-court (all clay) facility at Stoney Creek next to the golf clubhouse and the main 18-court complex at Devil’s Knob. The latter consists of 15 clay courts laid out among the evergreens and hardwoods near the top of a ridge and three hard courts beneath a tent-like pavilion. Devil’s Knob has a full-service pro shop, and its location puts it just across the road from the Wintergreen Sports complex, which has indoor and outdoor swimming pools and whirlpools, a fitness center, and a small spa.
Other great tennis camps include Adidas Tennis camp, Nike Tennis camp, and Gunterman Tennis Schools.
Choosing the tennis camp you would want to go to can be a tricky path. Whether you are looking for a tennis camp for your kids or your own, you can never be positive until you get there and experience it. If you have friends who have something to say about a good tennis camp, you may want to listen to them and try to find out more about that camp, this way you can make sure that the experience you or your family are about to get into would be a good one.
