White City Stadium (Sydney)

For the football stadium in London, see White City Stadium.

White City Tennis Club circa 1923

White City Stadium at the White City Tennis Club is a tennis venue in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, Australia. The stadium was built in 1922 as a new venue for the New South Wales Championships (now an international tournament known as the Sydney International). The venue served as host of the tournament until the Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre opened for the 2000 Summer Olympics. The Club was formed in 1947, and today has 16 grass courts, 6 synthetic grass courts, and 6 Rebound Ace hard courts. The Australian Tennis Museum was located at White City from its founding in 1983 until 2005 when it moved out to Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre.

Davis Cup

White City was host to some of Australia's Davis Cup championships during their dominant run in the 1950s and 1960s. It hosted the Challenge Round in 1951 (Australia defeating the United States), 1954 (USA def. Australia), 1960 (Australia def. Italy), 1965 (Australia def. Spain), and the final in 1977 (Australia def. Italy). The stadium also saw the USA defeat Italy in the Inter-Zonal Final in 1952 (before losing to Australia in the Challenge Round in Adelaide) and saw the USA defeat Australia in the 1979 semifinal. The 1954 final set the record for the largest crowd at a sanctioned tennis match, 25,578. This record held until 2004, when the Davis Cup final at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla, a converted football stadium, beat it.^[1]

Notes

↑ Spain quiets U.S. on first day of Davis Cup final | Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Find Articles at BNET.com

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Preceded by West Side Tennis Club New York City	Davis Cup Final Venue 1951	Succeeded by Memorial Drive Tennis Centre Adelaide
Preceded by Kooyong Stadium Melbourne	Davis Cup Final Venue 1954	Succeeded by West Side Tennis Club New York City
Preceded by West Side Tennis Club New York City	Davis Cup Final Venue 1960	Succeeded by Kooyong Stadium Melbourne
Preceded by Harold Clark Courts Cleveland	Davis Cup Final Venue 1965	Succeeded by Kooyong Stadium Melbourne
Preceded by Estadio Nacional de Chile Santiago	Davis Cup Final Venue 1977	Succeeded by Mission Hills CC Rancho Mirage

Coordinates: 33°52′46″S 151°13′52″E / 33.87944°S 151.23111°E / -33.87944; 151.23111

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