With Andy Murray's victory at Wimbledon and the men's team regaining its place in the elite Davis Cup World Group, British tennis is ending 2013 on a high and lovers of the game can interact and learn from the country's top players at a unique adult training academy at Spain's La Manga Club next month.

Europe's premier tennis destination has teamed up with the Lawn Tennis Association to offer tennis fans the exciting chance to improve their skills and share the secrets of Britain's elite players - with places available from €503 per person (approx £420) for a seven-night stay.

Murray's brother Jamie, Colin Fleming, Jonny Marray and Ross Hutchins - preparing to make his comeback to the tennis circuit after making a full recovery from cancer - will all head to La Manga Club for a men's elite squad training camp at the LTA's overseas training base from December 15-22.

The players are using the camp to help prepare for January's Australian Open and Britain's Davis Cup World Group match against USA shortly afterwards and, as part of the five-star pre-Christmas tennis break, participants will be treated to a series of exhibition displays from the top players and watch them put their paces by LTA doubles coach Louis Cayer.

In addition, guests can take part in a two-part doubles masterclass themselves with Cayer and a question-and-session with the players as well as enjoying daily weekday lessons from La Manga Club's expert team of coaches.

Packages, which can be booked from December 14-21 or December 15-22, include seven nights' accommodation, breakfast, tennis academy programme, fitness pass, Wi-Fi and tax, with prices starting from €503 per person staying in the four-star Las Lomas apartments, and from €678 per person (approx £565) staying in the resort's five-star Hotel Principe Felipe. 

All breaks are based on two people sharing a room while players will also enjoy complimentary use of Spa La Manga Club's fitness centre, indoor pool, saunas and steam rooms. 

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 three 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. 

For more information about the pre-Christmas tennis break and to book, call 00 34 968 17 5577, email reservas@lamangaclub.com or visit www.lamangaclub.com.

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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.