The LTA (Lawn Tennis Association) has reaffirmed its commitment to providing the best training facilities for Britain's best tennis players by announcing a three-year extension to its long-standing partnership with La Manga Club in Spain.

The leading destination resort is an official overseas training base for the LTA and offers elite level, year-round facilities on and off the court. Located in Murcia on Spain's sunny south-east coast, La Manga Club boasts 28 courts and regularly hosts training camps for Britain's top players including, most recently, Liam Broady and Davis Cup team member Dan Evans.

Leon Smith, LTA head of men's tennis and Aegon GB Davis Cup captain, commented: “La Manga Club is a world-class tennis venue with excellent facilities that are so important for the development of our players. The year-round access to top-class clay courts especially gives us the opportunity to train our best players in ideal conditions that are a long way from the wet and grey skies of a British winter!”

The 2015 Davis Cup winning captain added: “The training environment at La Manga Club is second to none. You have at your disposal world-class courts and physio facilities. The camps we run here give our junior players the best chance of success when they head off on European and international tours.”

The partnership with La Manga Club includes access for elite British player training camps, as well as promotional opportunities at the Aegon Series of British grass court events, including the Aegon Championships, at The Queen's Club.

Speaking at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, south-west London, on the new agreement, Brendan Dwyer, Commercial and Marketing Director at La Manga Club, said: “La Manga Club has a long and proud relationship with the LTA and we are delighted to confirm the partnership for another three years as the official overseas training base for elite training camps.

“Helped by some fantastic results, including last year's memorable Davis Cup victory against Belgium, British Tennis is enjoying a renaissance and all of us at La Manga Club are looking forward to supporting the LTA in preparing its performance programme players of at our acclaimed tennis centre and resort facilities.”

Three times the size of Monaco, La Manga Club has set the benchmark for Europe's sports and leisure destinations for more than four decades and remains a leader in the global tourism industry following continued investment.

Its extensive facilities include three 18-hole golf courses and a new Leadbetter Academy, eight FIFA-approved football pitches, a new High Performance Sports Centre, a 2,000m² spa and fitness complex, four and five-star accommodation and more than 20 bars and restaurants. (www.lamangaclub.com)

Image attached- Brendan Dwyer (centre), commercial and marketing director at La Manga Club, celebrates the partnership with Leon Smith (left), Aegon GB Davis Cup captain, and Michael Downey (right), LTA chief executive, with the Davis Cup at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, south-west London.

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NOTES TO EDITORS
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the National Governing Body for tennis in Great Britain, responsible for developing and promoting the sport with a mission to get more people playing tennis more often. It does this under the consumer brand of British Tennis, by working with a broad range of partners and over 25,000 volunteers, to grow the game in communities, clubs and schools. The LTA represents the interests of over 350,000 British Tennis Members, men and women, girls and boys across the country, playing on more than 23,000 courts. The LTA runs and supports a network of 11,500 approved tournaments for players of all ages, the corner-stones of which are five grass court pro events leading up to Wimbledon, held in Nottingham (ATP & WTA), Birmingham (WTA), Queen's Club-London (ATP) and Eastbourne (WTA), all of which are title sponsored by Aegon, our lead Partner who is helping transform the sport in this country. The LTA works in partnership with its charitable entity, the Tennis Foundation, to provide a tennis provision for more than 20,000 schools, disadvantaged youth as well as promoting tennis as an inclusive sport for anyone with a disability. For further information about the LTA and British Tennis, and to review the British Tennis strategy for 2015 – 2018 visit www.lta.org.uk or follow us on Twitter @BritishTennis.

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 2019. 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 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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