La Manga Club in Spain has enhanced its position as a firm favourite with tennis players across the globe after being named among the world's top resorts in a prestigious new poll.

The award-winning sports and lifestyle destination resort in Murcia has received new acclaim after being ranked as one of the World's Top 75 Tennis Resorts for 2015 by users of the leading American website Tennis Resorts Online.

The comprehensive online survey asked readers to rate their favourite tennis resorts and training camps, taking into account more than 20 different aspects of a tennis holiday, and received thousands of replies from players all over the world – with La Manga Club being voted second in Europe.

The accolade is a further endorsement of La Manga Club's world-class tennis facilities, with the venue already the official overseas winter training base of the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) as well as having extended its partnership with Tennis Europe for a further two years this year.

Announcing the new rankings, Roger Cox, editor of Tennis Resorts Online, told La Manga Club: “As avid tennis players and experienced travellers, our readers have high expectations when going on vacation.

“In choosing the survey criteria, we paid closest attention to those elements crucial to avid tennis players: the quality of the teaching staff and instruction, tennis programming, overall tennis experience and off-court amenities.

“The (final) list is a truly stellar collection of tennis properties and your staff should be extremely proud of your achievement. Your guests' enthusiasm says everything about the hard work and dedication you've invested in your tennis programmes and services, and your commitment to making tennis a rewarding part of every player's vacation.”

Featuring 20 clay courts, four hard courts and four on artificial grass, La Manga Club's 28-court centre boasts some of the finest tennis facilities in the world and a wide range of academies are available to guests of all ages to improve their racquet skills.

A regular host for the world's leading tennis stars as well as staging both Davis and Fed Cup tennis matches, British number ones Andy Murray and Johanna Konta are among a long list of top players to have used La Manga Club as a training base, with South Africa's Kevin Anderson, ranked 12th in the world, among the recent visitors.

Among its other accolades, the resort was named as Spain's leading golf complex at the 2015 World Golf Awards for the second year running earlier this month as well as being voted 'Best Golf Resort in Spain' by UK readers of Today's Golfer magazine for an impressive fourth year in a row.

For more details on La Manga Club, visit www.lamangaclub.com. 

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Press release written and distributed on behalf of La Manga Club by the Azalea Group.

La Manga Club
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 new Leadbetter Golf Academy – the only one in mainland Spain – 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 been voted 'Best Golf Hotel/Resort in Spain' by UK readers of Today's Golfer magazine for the last four years and was named 'Best Golf Hotel in Spain' at the 2014 and 2015 World Golf Awards. La Manga Club 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.

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For more information on La Manga Club contact Pete Simm on 01730 711920 or email petes@theazaleagroup.com