Create image objects, preload all active and inactive images. The 1,000-acre Resort at Longboat Key straddles the southern tip of a long, narrow barrier island opposite Sarasota. Each development has a golf course and a tennis club. A kind of reawakening of the tennis center seemed to occur in 1996 with the opening of a new fitness center across the road from the Islandside tennis complex. I'm still not convinced that this is the place to choose if you want more than an hour or so of tennis a day, but if you have information to the contrary, please let me know.
Most guests play at the Islandside tennis complex just a short walk from the beachfront inn.
A long covered deck outside the pro shop overlooks part of the action, and provides a place to gather before and after matches. There is a fitness center just across the road. John Woods, the resort's personable tennis director, came to the Longboat Key Club in 1976. He played for Texas Tech and then traveled with the Laver-Emerson camps for three years between stints at the Houston Racquet Club and the Country Club of Sarasota, among other venues. Apart from a daily stroke and strategy clinic for adults and seasonal and holiday clinics for juniors, there appears to be little else beyond private lessons and solid game matching.