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Soon tennis clubs were established across the country amongst the upper classes, including in New Orleans and San Francisco. [2] The New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club was founded in December, 1876. [3] In 1887 the Philadelphia Cricket Club, hosted a National singles Championship. In 1888 a women's tennis tournament was soon set up.
The California State Championships [1] also called the California Championships was a men's and women's international hard court tennis tournament was founded in 1901. [2] It was first played at Hotel Rafael, San Rafael, California, United States. It was also hosted at other locations throughout its run until 1983 when it was discontinued. [2]
Players on Wimbledon's Centre Court in 2008, a year before the installation of a retractable roof. The racket sport traditionally named lawn tennis, invented in Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, now commonly known simply as tennis, is the direct descendant of what is now denoted real tennis or royal tennis, which continues to be played today as a separate sport with more complex rules.
Jones was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1970. He established the Southern California Tennis Association (SCTA) Hall of Fame in 1968, and was known as "Mr. Tennis of the West Coast". From the 1930s through the early 1970s, the LATC was the center of development for world-class players in the United States.
The Southern California Tennis Association held its first tournament in 1887 the Southern California Championships in Santa Monica. [8] The first men's singles champion was William Henry Young, who won both tournaments contested in 1887, one at the Casa Blanca Club in Riverside, and the other at the Casino courts in Santa Monica. [9]
The tournament was usually held in September and hosted the top men (and until 1975, women) in the world. [3] Tournament winners from its beginning in 1927 until 1967 included most of the world's No. 1 tennis players: Bill Tilden, Ellsworth Vines, Don Budge, Fred Perry, Jack Kramer, Pancho Gonzales and amateur champions Roy Emerson and Barry MacKay (tennis).
The modern form of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis. [4] It had close connections to various field (lawn) games such as croquet and bowls as well as to the older racket sport today called real tennis. [5] The rules of modern tennis have changed little since the 1890s.
The inaugural Ojai Tennis Tournament matched the Ojai Valley and Ventura tennis clubs, with the pool of eligible entrants later expanding to include neighboring counties and eventually all of California. [4] By 1912, it was the largest amateur tennis tournament in the US with 272 competitors in 12 events. [12]