Eastbourne International
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Event name | Aegon International Eastbourne | ||||||||
Founded | 1974 | ||||||||
Editions | 42 (2016) | ||||||||
Location |
Eastbourne United Kingdom | ||||||||
Venue | Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club | ||||||||
Surface | Grass / Outdoors | ||||||||
Website | www.aegoninternationaleastbourne.co.uk | ||||||||
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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. Also, it was an ATP World Tour 250 series on the ATP World Tour from 2009 to 2014. 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. As from 2015 the annual tournament will return to a Ladies only event, with the Men's competition returning to Nottingham.[1] It is currently sponsored by AEGON.[2] The 2015 tournament took place from 22 to 27 June.[3] In April 2016, it was announced that men's tennis would return to Eastbourne for the 2017 season with the ATP World Tour 250 series event being reinstated.[4][5]
Combination
During 2007, lack of sponsorship for the Eastbourne tournament led the Lawn Tennis Association to consider moving the tournament to London.[6] 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 Ladies event (with the men's competition returning to Nottingham).[7][8][9] In 2017, the Eastbourne tournament will return to being a combined event.[4][5]
Past winners
Martina Navratilova[10] holds the record for the most singles titles with 11.
Singles finals
Women
Women's champions by country
Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
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United States (USA) | 23 | 1974 | 2014 |
France (FRA) | 3 | 1995 | 2011 |
Russia (RUS) | 3 | 2004 | 2013 |
Belgium (BEL) | 3 | 2005 | 2007 |
Czech Republic (CZE) | 2 | 1997 | 1998 |
Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1975 | 1975 |
Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1987 | 1987 |
Spain (SPA) | 1 | 1997 | 1997 |
Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
Poland (POL) | 1 | 2008 | 2008 |
Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 2009 | 2009 |
Austria (AUT) | 1 | 2012 | 2012 |
Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 2015 | 2015 |
Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 2016 | 2016 |
Men
Year | Champion | Runner | Score |
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2009 | Dmitry Tursunov | Frank Dancevic | 6–3, 7–6(7–5) |
2010 | Michaël Llodra | Guillermo García-López | 7–5, 6–2 |
2011 | Andreas Seppi | Janko Tipsarević | 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 5–3 retired |
2012 | Andy Roddick | Andreas Seppi | 6–3, 6–2 |
2013 | Feliciano López | Gilles Simon | 7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 6–0 |
2014 | Feliciano López (2) | Richard Gasquet | 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 7–5 |
Men's champions by country
Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
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Spain (ESP) | 2 | 2013 | 2014 |
Russia (RUS) | 1 | 2009 | 2009 |
France (FRA) | 1 | 2010 | 2010 |
Italy (ITA) | 1 | 2011 | 2011 |
United States (USA) | 1 | 2012 | 2012 |
Doubles finals
Women
Women's champions by country
Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
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United States (USA) | 32 | 1975 | 2010 |
Australia (AUS) | 9 | 1979 | 2016 |
Soviet Union (URS) | 8 | 1975 | 1991 |
Czech Republic (CZE) | 5 | 1995 | 2011 |
Spain (SPA) | 5 | 1995 | 2012 |
Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 1978 | 1997 |
Russia (RUS) | 3 | 1999 | 2013 |
France (FRA) | 3 | 2000 | 2015 |
Slovenia (SLO) | 3 | 2011 | 2015 |
Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 1993 | 1994 |
Japan (JPN) | 2 | 2000 | 2009 |
Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 2 | 2014 | 2014 |
Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1976 | 1976 |
West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 1988 | 1988 |
Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1992 | 1992 |
Latvia (LAT) | 1 | 1992 | 1992 |
South Africa (RSA) | 1 | 1998 | 1998 |
Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 1999 | 1999 |
Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 1 | 2008 | 2008 |
Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 2009 | 2009 |
Croatia (CRO) | 1 | 2016 | 2016 |
Men
Year | Champion | Runner-up | Score |
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2009 | Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski | Travis Parrott Filip Polášek | 6–4, 6–4 |
2010 | Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski | Colin Fleming Ken Skupski | 6–3, 5–7, [10–8] |
2011 | Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram | Grigor Dimitrov Andreas Seppi | 6–3, 6–3 |
2012 | Colin Fleming Ross Hutchins | Jamie Delgado Ken Skupski | 6–4, 6–3 |
2013 | Alexander Peya Bruno Soares | Colin Fleming Jonathan Marray | 3–6, 6–3, [10–8] |
2014 | Treat Huey Dominic Inglot | Alexander Peya Bruno Soares | 7–5, 5–7, [10–8] |
Men's champions by country
Country | Winner | First title | Last title |
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Poland (POL) | 4 | 2009 | 2010 |
Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 2012 | 2014 |
Israel (ISR) | 2 | 2011 | 2011 |
Austria (AUT) | 1 | 2013 | 2013 |
Brazil (BRA) | 1 | 2013 | 2013 |
Philippines (PHI) | 1 | 2014 | 2014 |
References
- ↑ "Men move over for 2015". Eastbourne Tennis.
- ↑ Hodgkinson, Mark (2008-09-16). "Andy Murray key to LTA's five-year, £25m sponsorship deal with Aegon". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ↑ "Aegon International Top women's grass-court tennis event at Eastbourne. 22 - 27 June 2015". Aegon Tennis. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- 1 2 ""Bigger and better" British grass court season announced for 2017". Lawn Tennis Association. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- 1 2 "Breaking: Men's tennis to return to Eastbourne". Eastbourne Herald. 2016-04-07. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ Whelan, Andy (25 June 2007), "Tennis bosses serve blow to Eastbourne", The Argus, retrieved 2008-05-15
- ↑ "Wimbledon warm-up event scrapped". BBC. 2008-04-08. Archived from the original on April 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
- ↑ "Men and Women's Tennis Merged Events". Eastbourne Borough Council. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
- ↑ "BREAKING NEWS: Eastbourne to lose men's tennis tournament". Eastbourne Herald. 10 February 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ↑ http://www.eastbournetennis.com/players/martina-navratilova/she-came-she-conquered/
- ↑ "Tennis: Novotna ties with Sanchez Vicario", The Independent, 23 June 1997
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