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Eastbourne International

The Eastbourne International is a tennis tournament on the WTA Tour and the ATP Tour held at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club, Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Held since 1974, it is classified as a WTA 500 series on the WTA Tour and an ATP Tour 250 series on the ATP Tour. The tournament is played on outdoor grass courts, and is generally considered a "warm-up" for the Wimbledon Championships, a major tournament, which begins the following week. It was originally just part of the WTA Tour, but from 2009 it was combined as an ATP Tour event. It replaced the Nottingham Open grass court tournament from 2009–2014. Nottingham returned for 2015–2016 with no men's event in Eastbourne, however Eastbourne replaced the Nottingham event again from 2017 onwards. As of 2022, it is sponsored by Rothesay,[1] with past sponsors including Viking Cruises,[2] Nature Valley and AEGON.[3]

Combination

During 2007, lack of sponsorship for the Eastbourne tournament led the Lawn Tennis Association to consider moving the tournament to London.[4] However, as part of a general reorganisation of United Kingdom professional tennis tournaments, it was instead decided to merge the event with the Nottingham Open, traditionally held during the same week. From 2009, therefore, the Eastbourne courts have hosted a combined women's and men's event until 2014. In 2015 and 2016 it was an only a Ladies event (with the men's competition returning to Nottingham).[5][6][7] In 2017, the Eastbourne tournament returned to being a combined event.[8][9]

Past winners

Martina Navratilova holds the record for the most singles titles with 11.[10]

Finals

Women's singles

Women's champions by country

Men's singles

Men's champions by country

Doubles finals

Women

Women's champions by country

Men

Men's champions by country

See also

References

  1. ^ "LTA unveils new partnership with Rothesay as title sponsor of summer events in Nottingham, Birmingham and Eastbourne". Lawn Tennis Association. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Viking confirmed as title sponsor of LTA summer grass court events in Nottingham, Birmingham and Eastbourne". Lawn Tennis Association. 21 May 2021. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  3. ^ Hodgkinson, Mark (16 September 2008). "Andy Murray key to LTA's five-year, £25m sponsorship deal with Aegon". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  4. ^ Whelan, Andy (25 June 2007), "Tennis bosses serve blow to Eastbourne", The Argus, retrieved 15 May 2008
  5. ^ "Wimbledon warm-up event scrapped". BBC. 8 April 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
  6. ^ "Men and Women's Tennis Merged Events". Eastbourne Borough Council. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 18 May 2008.
  7. ^ "BREAKING NEWS: Eastbourne to lose men's tennis tournament". Eastbourne Herald. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  8. ^ ""Bigger and better" British grass court season announced for 2017". Lawn Tennis Association. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Breaking: Men's tennis to return to Eastbourne". Eastbourne Herald. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  10. ^ "She came, she conquered…". EastbourneTennis. 6 May 2013.
  11. ^ "Tennis: Novotna ties with Sanchez Vicario", The Independent, 23 June 1997

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