Devonshire Park
| the club where sport and sociability walk hand in hand | |
 
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| Location | Eastbourne, United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 50°45′49″N 0°17′00″E / 50.763686°N 0.283204°ECoordinates: 50°45′49″N 0°17′00″E / 50.763686°N 0.283204°E |
| Capacity | 8,000 (Tennis) |
| Surface | grass |
| Opened | 1881 |
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Fed Cup (1977) Aegon International (Tennis) (present) |
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The Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club is a tennis complex in Eastbourne, United Kingdom. The complex is the host of the annual ATP and WTA Tour tournament called the AEGON Eastbourne International. The stadium court has a capacity of 8,000 people. The Devonshire Park, originally intended as a cricket ground, opened its gates to the public on 1 July 1874 and in 1879, the first tennis courts was marked out on its prestigious lawns. A little later in 1877 the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club set about regularising the laws of lawn tennis and produced its first tournament at Wimbledon running from July 9–16 of that year.
In June 2016 the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) and the Eastbourne council announced a £44m project to upgrade the park including a show court and new practice courts.
Roller Skates and Rackets: EBC 1999
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