The Florida adult-camp landscape
Florida's adult tennis offerings cluster into a few recognizable shapes. Resort camps attach multi-day tennis programs to hotels and resort properties — comfortable, social, scheduled around leisure, with clinics in the morning and the pool in the afternoon. Weekend clinics and adult academies run shorter, more tennis-dense formats at clubs and training centers, usually organized by level or theme. And junior academies — the programs built around tournament players — sometimes offer adult clinics, private coaching or league-player training alongside their core work. Each model is legitimate; they simply optimize for different things, and the brochure rarely says which. (Our own published camps guide, tennis camps in Florida, is junior-focused — the adult market is different enough to deserve this page of its own.)
What adults should actually look for
Three things separate a week that improves your tennis from a week that merely contains tennis. Level-matched groups: if a 3.0 doubles player and a former college player share a drill line, neither improves — ask how groups are formed, what levels attend a typical week, and whether the camp asks about your level before taking your booking. Genuine coaching versus supervised hitting: feeding balls and calling encouragement is not instruction. In a real coaching week someone watches you specifically, names one or two things to change, and builds the week's work around them. Video feedback: adults carry decades of ingrained habits, and video is the fastest way to make a correction stick — a camp that films and reviews is signaling it takes improvement seriously. Whether concentrated instruction pays off at all — and when it does not — is the subject of our guide to whether tennis lessons are worth it.
Where Saviano honestly fits
Saviano High Performance Tennis is a junior high-performance academy first — the daily program is built around competitive tournament players, and we would rather say that plainly than sell adults a week designed for someone else. What the academy offers adults is the other side of that coin: the coaching itself. The staff is hand-selected and mentored by Nick Saviano, the training runs on lighted hard and Har-Tru clay courts in Davie, and adult offerings center on coaching quality — not resort amenities. Current adult options and private coaching vary by season, so the honest instruction is simply to contact the academy and ask what is available for your level and schedule. In the meantime, the player development library is free and applies to a 45-year-old league player as much as to a 15-year-old tournament junior.
Questions to ask any adult camp, anywhere
- How are groups formed, and what levels attend a typical week? A camp that asks for your NTRP/UTR or a video before answering is a good sign.
- What is the player-to-coach ratio on court? Six or more per coach means supervised hitting; corrections need smaller numbers.
- Who does the coaching — the program's real coaches, or seasonal staff? Ask who specifically will be on your court.
- Is there video analysis, and do you review it with me? Filming without review is a souvenir, not feedback.
- How much of the day is actual instruction versus organized play? Both have value — but know the split before you pay for it.
- What happens after the week? A serious program sends you home with one or two named priorities to work on, not just sore shoulders.