Resort Meetings Tennis, Anyone? Tennis is back and it’s time to consider adding it to your next program By Kinley Levack kinley.levack@nielsen.com Decades may have passed since your stint at tennis camp or your last doubles debacle, but across the U.S., tennis is gaining ground as a recreational sport in a way it hasn’t in quite some time. According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association’s most recent participation study, participation in tennis between 2000 and 2005 grew by 12.2 percent. Not only did it achieve the highest growth rate of all 114 traditional sports tracked, but PHOTO: COURTESY SADDLEBROOK RESORT SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS JANUARY 2008 mimegasite.com 43http://mimegasite.com