The best tennis camps in Florida

The question that sorts every camp on this list

Ask one thing before you compare anything else: will my player train with the academy's real players, or in a group assembled for the week? Most camps — including good ones — run visitors as a separate population with seasonal coaching staff. A smaller number integrate visitors into the year-round training group, which means the standard, intensity and coaching are exactly what full-time players get. Neither model is wrong. A camp group suits a player who wants volume, variety and a fun week; integration suits a competitive player using the week to test themselves or to try an academy before committing. Our guide to high performance tennis camps goes deeper on the difference.

1. Saviano HPT summer program — Davie

The integration model. Saviano's summer program runs June through August in weekly blocks, and visiting players are not put in a camp group — they train inside the full-time group, on the same courts, under the same coaches, at the academy's maximum 4:1 player-to-coach ratio. Full days run 7:45 to 3:00 across lighted hard and Har-Tru clay courts, with video analysis and physical training built in, and founder Nick Saviano is typically on court daily. Pricing as published for 2026 is $1,209 per week full day and $753 per week half day. It is a day program — no dorms — which suits local families and visiting families who make it a training holiday. Best for: competitive juniors who want a week at full-time standard, and families auditioning an academy.

Summer is not the only window. The academy also runs holiday camps over Thanksgiving, winter and spring break, 10:00 to 5:00, on the same courts with the same staff — useful for players who want serious work while school is out but can't travel in summer.

2. IMG Academy camps — Bradenton

The biggest operation. IMG runs the largest tennis camp program in the state, on the multi-sport boarding campus that grew out of Nick Bollettieri's original academy. The draw is scale and the campus experience: boarding is available, so families anywhere in the world can send a player for a week or several, and the facilities — courts, gyms, sports science — are unmatched in volume. The trade-off is the same as IMG's full-time program: your player is one of many, in a camp population coached by staff rather than the names on the gate. It suits players who want the total-immersion campus week, and it is the natural choice when overnight boarding is a requirement rather than a preference.

3. Evert Tennis Academy camps — Boca Raton

The boarding boutique. The Evert family's Boca Raton academy is far smaller than IMG but still offers boarding, which makes its camps a middle path: overnight capability without the mega-campus scale. Evert publishes its weekly camp pricing openly, starting from several hundred dollars a week — a genuinely useful reference point when other academies make you ask. A strong choice for families who want boarding at a smaller, tennis-only academy.

4. University-run camps

The campus sampler. Florida's college campuses — the Gators' in Gainesville among them — host summer tennis camps, as do universities across the country. These are typically short sessions with day and overnight options, and the coaching is campus staff and counselors rather than a developmental academy's year-round team. They are honest value for what they are: a fun week, exposure to a college campus, and for older juniors a first feel for a program's environment. They are not a substitute for academy training, and no serious college coach treats a camp attendance as recruiting — but as a week of tennis with a campus attached, they earn their place.

How to choose a camp

• Camp group or training-group integration? Decide which your player needs this summer. Integration is the harder, more valuable week for a competitive junior; a camp group is the better first camp.
• Hours on court. A full training day is six-plus hours of tennis and fitness; some camps are half that. Ask for the actual daily schedule, not the brochure summary.
• Player-to-coach ratio at peak hours. 4:1 and 8:1 are different products. Ask what the ratio is mid-morning in week three, not on day one.
• Day or overnight. Boarding camps (IMG, Evert) open the map to any family; day programs keep evenings with the family and usually cost meaningfully less.
• Age and level fit. Younger or newer players are often better served by a camp built for them than by the most intense option available — our guide to kids' tennis camps in Florida covers that end of the market.