Ross Hutchins will be a part of Great Britain's elite men's squad that will head to Spain and the five-star La Manga Club resort next month (December) as he prepares to make his return to the full-time tennis circuit after making a full recovery from cancer.

Hutchins, 28, who has made a full recovery after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma 12 months ago, will join up with long-term doubles partner Colin Fleming and other members of the elite squad for the week-long training camp in Murcia at the Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) overseas training base.

Jonny Marray, winner of the 2012 Wimbledon men's doubles title, and Jamie Murray will also be part of the squad being put through their paces by LTA doubles coach Louis Cayer in readiness for January's Australian Open and Great Britain's Davis Cup world group tie against United States in two months' time.

The warm weather camp is one of three elite training breaks that La Manga Club will be hosting in the next three months as part of its burgeoning relationship with the LTA, who will use the resort as its overseas training base until 2016.

Preceding the men's squad's visit will be a six-day training break for the country's top boys in the under-12 to under-16 age categories at the end of this month, with coaching from ex-British number one Greg Rusedski. 

Britain's elite ladies will also use the resort to fine-tune their games ahead of the Australian Open while the LTA will hold a third training camp at La Manga Club lasting ten days at the end of January.

Leon Smith, the LTA's head of men's and women's tennis, said: "La Manga Club has everything that our players and coaches need for a pre-season training camp. It is the ideal environment and the facilities are of the highest quality, with excellent clay courts and recently-surfaced hard courts.

"We're delighted with how our relationship with the resort is progressing. It's been a great year for British tennis, with Andy Murray winning Wimbledon and the Davis Cup men's team regaining their place in the world group, and we're looking forward to going back to the resort."

Featuring a tennis academy including 20 clay courts, four hard courts and four on artificial grass, La Manga Club boasts some of the best facilities in Europe and British stars past and present including Murray, Laura Robson, Tim Henman and Elena Baltacha have all used the resort to train over the last decade. It has also been used to stage Davis Cup and Fed Cup matches.

The LTA's winter camps will bring to a close another memorable tennis year for La Manga Club, with South African number one Kevin Anderson and the Russian Ladies' Tennis Federation also among the leading names to use the resort as a warm weather training base.

Set over 1,400 acres in an area three times the size of Monaco, La Manga Club continues to set the benchmark for sports and leisure destinations across Europe and is widely known as Spain's flagship resort.

The venue boasts unrivalled facilities as a sport and leisure resort including three 18-hole championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and a 2,000sqm spa and fitness centre. It also offers the choice of a five-star hotel, four-star serviced apartments and townhouses and more than 20 bars and restaurants. 

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La Manga Club - www.lamangaclub.com - is an unrivalled sports and leisure paradise which sits between the low hills that separate the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor Sea, just 20 minutes from Murcia airport and an hour from Alicante.  

Set out over an area of some 560 hectares (approx. 1,400 acres), it enjoys a mild year-round Mediterranean climate and offers visitors a prestigious five-star hotel, luxury vacation apartments and extensive sports facilities, including three championship golf courses, a 28-court tennis centre and eight grass sports pitches. The resort is also home to innumerable leisure facilities, such as the 2,000m2 Spa La Manga Club with its 13 luxurious treatment rooms, comprehensive fitness centre and 25m indoor swimming pool; meeting, banqueting and incentive facilities, and more than 20 restaurants and bars. 

As well as hosting both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, La Manga Club has signed a long-term deal to be the overseas training resort of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) until 2016. It has also staged the Spanish Open golf championship and regularly attracts professional and international football teams to the first-class year-round training facilities which are also used by rugby and cricket sides.

As a result of more than 40 years of continued investment, innovation and commitment to excellence, La Manga Club is widely recognised as Spain's flagship resort and as one of the finest sports and lifestyle destinations in the world. Evidence of this is provided by its numerous awards and accolades.

La Manga Club was the proud recipient of a 2013 Certificate of Excellence from TripAdvisor, the world's largest travel website, for the facilities and service on offer at its five-star Hotel Principe Felipe. The resort has long been a staunch supporter of women's golf, being the official overseas resort partner of the English Women's Golf Association for three years as well as hosting the Ladies European Tour (LET) Qualifying School from 2009-12. La Manga Club is also the venue for the Ladies Murcia Open, an LET Access Series event, and regularly hosts top women's amateur events and teams.