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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-days, 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 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.
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