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Eastbourne International Location Eastbourne
United KingdomVenue Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club Surface Grass / Outdoors www.aegoninternational.co.uk/ ATP World Tour Category 250 series Draw 32M/32Q/16D Prize Money $450,000 WTA Tour Category Premier Draw 32M/32Q/16D Prize Money $600,000 The Eastbourne International is a tennis tournament on the Women's Tennis Association Tour and the ATP World Tour held at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club Eastbourne, United Kingdom. Held since 1974, it is classified as a WTA Premier tournament on the WTA Tour and as an ATP World Tour 250 series on the ATP World Tour. The tournament is played on outdoor grass courts, and is generally considered a "warm-up" for the Wimbledon Grand Slam event, which begins the following week. It is currently sponsored by AEGON[1]
Contents
Combination
During 2007, lack of sponsorship for the Eastbourne tournament led the Lawn Tennis Association to consider moving the tournament to London.[2] 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.[3][4]
Past winners
Martina Navrátilová holds the record for the most singles titles with 11.
Singles finals
Men
Year Champion Runner-up Score 2009 Dmitry Tursunov Frank Dancevic 6–3, 7–6(5) 2010 Michaël Llodra Guillermo García-López 7–5, 6–2 2011 Andreas Seppi Janko Tipsarević 7–6(5), 3–6, 5–3 RET Women
Doubles finals
Men
Year Champion Runner-up Score 2009 Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Marcin MatkowskiTravis Parrott
Filip Polášek6–4, 6–4 2010 Mariusz Fyrstenberg
Marcin MatkowskiColin Fleming
Ken Skupski6–3, 5–7, [10–8] 2011 Jonathan Erlich
Andy RamGrigor Dimitrov
Andreas Seppi6–3, 6–3 Women
References
- ^ Hodgkinson, Mark (2008-09-16). "Andy Murray key to LTA's five-year, £25m sponsorship deal with Aegon". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/2969485/Andy-Murray-key-to-LTAs-five-year-25m-sponsorship-deal-with-Aegon-Tennis.html.
- ^ Whelan, Andy (25 June 2007), Tennis bosses serve blow to Eastbourne, The Argus, http://www.theargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1494438.mostviewed.tennis_bosses_serve_blow_to_eastbourne.php, retrieved 2008-05-15
- ^ Wimbledon-warm-up-event-scrapped "Wimbledon warm-up event scrapped". BBC. 2008-04-08. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/7337663.stm/ Wimbledon-warm-up-event-scrapped. Retrieved 2008-04-08.[dead link]
- ^ "Men and Women's Tennis Merged Events". Eastbourne Borough Council. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20080612172506/http://www.eastbourne.gov.uk/eastbourne/tourism/tennis/merged-tennis-events. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
External links
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1995–1998/2002 Warsaw • 1996 Moscow (Kremlin Cup) • 1996–2004/2008 Luxembourg City • 1996–2008 's-Hertogenbosch • 1997–2003 Madrid • 1997–2008 Gold Coast • 1998 Prague • Boston • 1999 Cairo
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- Recurring sporting events established in 1974
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