The World's Best Tennis Vacations

by Roger Cox

A friend of mine looked at me in disbelief recently when I said I needed a vacation and wouldn't mind going to tennis camp. Writing about tennis camps and resorts is what I do for a living, and in a typical year I travel to scores of them in the course of researching travel assignments. The notion that I would turn around and do for fun what I do as a profession struck her as bizarre bordering on the obsessive. She thought of camp as a kind of repair shop for tennis strokes, a place to take one's game for a tune-up or overhaul. Thus, it seemed to her that, as often as I attended, whatever the tennis-camp pros could do for my game must already have been done. What was the point, she asked, in my going again? Read the book to find out.

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1990