Fila is the Official Supplier to the Campbell’s Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, scheduled for July 6-12, 2009 which hosts 32 of the top players in the world on the legendary grass courts of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The first American stop on the ATP World Tour following Wimbledon, Newport is the only professional grass court tournament in North America.
Top pro players compete for the Van Alen Cup and $500,000 in prize money on the historic grass courts of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, one of the world’s most beautiful and intimate sporting venues.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum is one of the most historic places in the game of tennis. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. Courtesy of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, enjoy some interesting facts about the site of this week’s ATP event:
In 1881, the Newport Casino hosted the first men’s United States National Lawn Tennis Association tournament. In 1915 that tournament was moved to Forest Hills, N.Y., and in1978 moved to Flushing Meadows, N.Y. We now know this tournament as the US Open.
The International Tennis Hall of Fame Museum holds over 16,000 objects in its permanent collection. The Information Research Center (IRC) consists of over 3,000 books, 250,000 photographs, and 3,300 audio-visual materials.
The museum presents a timeline of tennis history discussing its origins and growth by era from the 1880s to the present.
The center hallway of the Museum illustrates the changes in fashion, culture and equipment with prints, photos, and racquets. Additional galleries stem from the center hallway and focus on more specific themes.
The Museum showcases a number of unique artifacts, including the patent from Queen Victoria in 1874 for the game of lawn tennis. This patent was awarded to Major Walter Clopton Wingfield (Hall of Fame Class of 1997). Displayed with this unique historical document is Major Wingfield’s British Cavalry Officer’s uniform and sword.
The Grand Staircase at the Museum’s entrance presents 39 trophies, all won by Hall of Famers.
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International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum
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