Atlanta has always been an electrifying city, but in the last 20 years, it’s morphed itself into a cultural capital of not only the South, but the United States.
11.05.2024 - 00:35 / cntraveler.com
Much of Challengers’ runtime not spent on a tennis court goes down in a suite and lobby bar at an unnamed luxury New Rochelle hotel. (The film was shot in Boston.) While the techno-pulsing tennis piece of erotica never establishes whether or not these lodgings have a place to play on the premises, there are allusions to sports power couple Tashi and Art Donaldson’s (Zendaya and Mike Faist, respectively) preferred vacation destinations when off the clock. Considering the former’s clinging obsession with the game, and use of the latter as her proxy (she cannot play following an injury), it would be difficult to imagine tennis isn’t somehow involved.
We've already looked at the best tennis getaways in Europe for those across the pond, but if you're hoping to stay in the US, we’ve rounded up some of the most fabulous hotels with tennis courts in the region. From sleepy waterfront cottages with one block of green tucked amidst the trees to oceanfront resorts with veritable campuses of courts, all you have to do is throw on your best tennis skirt, lace up your sneakers, and let the Reznor-Ross score blare.
The tennis courts at Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa.
Two of this sprawling resort’s 18 tennis courts are red European clay. The Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy runs annually here for juniors and adults during the month of July. Plus, a cardio tennis fitness class is available upon request. The resort has so much to offer even outside of tennis, that our contributor didn’t even mention tennis in her review! Such are the bounties available at this 49-key, uber-luxurious California paradise. Read more here, but know that there is also a beautiful yoga pavilion to stretch out those post-match muscles.
The Omni Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia.
This beauty’s four courts are all made of Har-Tru, that hard green clay surface that’s long been synonymous with the court and remains so (at least in this writer’s mind) even with the rise of that cold, blue Decoturf. The Omni properties run solid tennis programs across a number of their locations, with the recently-renovated Homestead in Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains offering, amongst myriad amenities, social round robins and special clinics for players of all levels. Days on the courts, no matter how long, are well-complimented by a trip to their spa and a refreshing meal at one of the property’s eight restaurants. Challengers, I’m sure, will soon be screened in their theater.
Home to a whopping 22 tennis courts, Kiawah Island Golf Resort’s Roy Barth Tennis Center (named after their Director of Tennis Emeritus, if you’ll allow the very existence of such a title to tell you something about how seriously they take the game here) is a tennis destination in and of
Atlanta has always been an electrifying city, but in the last 20 years, it’s morphed itself into a cultural capital of not only the South, but the United States.
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