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A short series. These are the courts we'd dream of playing on: the ones that never host a tour stop, yet deserve a place on every tennis lover's list. Here are the first five.
Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
The Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters is played here every April, and the address still surprises people: the club sits in France, just outside Monaco, on red-clay terraces carved into the hillside above the Mediterranean.
Il San Pietro di Positano, Positano, Italy
A single clay court at the foot of the cliff, almost at sea level, reached by an elevator carved through the rock from the hotel above, with the Tyrrhenian Sea stretching out on three sides.
La Cavalerie, Paris, France
On the roof of a 1930s Art Deco building in the 15th arrondissement, two courts look directly towards the Eiffel Tower. It's a private club that most Parisians walk past without ever realising it's there.
Astor Courts, Rhinebeck, New York
John Jacob Astor IV commissioned this glass-roofed tennis pavilion in 1902. Designed by Stanford White, it allowed guests to play indoors on his Hudson Valley estate. It still stands today, and Chelsea Clinton was married there in 2010.
Emerald Cay, Turks and Caicos
A private island estate on Chalk Sound with its own tennis court, reached by a causeway across turquoise shallows. Rent the entire island, and the court comes with it.
Originally published at jadepeak.com.
