The Best Tennis Resorts in Europe

1) La Manga Club Resort in Spain
28 courts
La Manga Club Spanish Holidays La Manga Club offers a superb choice of luxury accommodation with over 2000 luxury villas, apartments and townhouses set on over 1500 acres for your luxury holiday throughout the year. La Manga Club is the perfect destination for your luxury Spanish holiday. The luxury villas and apartments are set into the Murcian hillside and enjoy spectacular panoramic views over the 3 championship golf courses at La Manga Club and the Mar Menor, La Manga"s inland sea.

Over 25,000 agencies from 182 countries have voted the La Manga Club Resort in Southern Spain a European resort category winner of the prestigious World Travel Award - an award achieved by only the very best holiday destinations.

2) Club Med-Kamarina, Italy
28 courts

Kamarina is located outside Ragusa on the southwest coast of Sicily. This large family village consists of a hotel and Italian-style bungalows set amid bougainvillea and olive trees beside a sandy beach. It has particular appeal to tennis players because of its complex of 28 mostly clay tennis courts (11 with lights).

Its other land sports include a circus school with a high trapeze and archery, volleyball, and cycling. New on the agenda is our in-line skating school (half-pipe), skateboard and BMX. Water sports available are sailing, windsurfing, and kayaking for all levels. An solid choice for families with children of all ages, Kamarina welcomes those as young as age 2 at the Petit Club with activities for older children including soccer school.

Kamarina is one of four clubs in Europe and North Africa where Club Med has established its own Tennis Academy. The programs were designed in collaboration with Serge Autexier, a technical and physical coach for Davis and Fed Cup players, and Thierry Champion, an international coach and former French Davis Cup player. Although there is free instruction for all at the Club, the Academy programs are more comprehensive and come at a surcharge.

3) Tenniscamp Warmbad Villach, Austria
15 courts
This hot springs resort is located at the entrance to a 20-hectare nature park. It has 10 outdoor and 5 indoor courts as well as a tennis camp. Packages provide unlimited free court time. It also has a PGA golf school and supervised children's and youth camps.

4) Bio-Hotel Stanglwirt, Tirol, Austria
14 courts
A mere three hours from fastening your seat belt on the plane, you can be experiencing the luxurious ecologically-friendly Biohotel Staglwirt, riding the hotels beautiful Lippizan horses, surrounded by the stunning Austrian Alps, drinking in the super-clean air, starring at the beautiful blue sky, and contemplating your next Alpine treatment at the 13 treatment room spa and fitness centre.

Biohotel has been built with biological matrials of the highest quality. All rooms are furnished with noble stone-pine wood. The most successful tennis school in Europe, Peter Burwash International, offers courses in the tennis village Stanglwirt on 6 indoor courts and 8 outdoor courts. Take your choice between PBI group courses, individual lessons or children"s course.

5) Clubhotel Lakitira, Greece
11 courts
Lakitira Resort Hotel and Village is not just another resort hotel. Over the years, the name Lakitira has become synonymous to top quality summer vacations for families and sports lovers. Here, everything is at your doorstep: two beautiful sand beaches, three restaurants, four bars, two swimming pools for adults, eleven tennis courts, and a wide selection of sea-sports and fitness activities. Children have their exclusive areas, separate waterfront facilities, and a shallow swimming pool.

A large number of guests return every year to Lakitira Resort Hotel and Village to enjoy, in its friendly and familiar atmosphere, one more unforgettable summer break! Lakitira Resort Hotel and Village is operating as a Mark Warner Club. It has been voted by the specialized Ace Tennis Magazine as The Best of the Best European Tennis Resorts and The Best for Families Resort for three consecutive years (2005-2006, 2006-2007 and 2007-2008).

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