East India Championships

East India Championships
Defunct tennis tournament
Founded	1920; 105 years ago (1920)
Abolished	1970; 55 years ago (1970)
Location	Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Surface	Grass

The East India Championships [1] also known as the East India Lawn Tennis Championships was a combined men's and women's grass court tennis tournament founded in 1920. The championships were played at the Calcutta South Club, Calcutta, Bengal, India and ran until 1970 before they were discontinued.

History

Tennis was introduced to India in the 1880s by British Army and Civilian Officers.[2] In 1920, the East India Championships were founded.[3] In 1969, the East India Championships were held in conjunction with the All Assam Hard Court Championships. The championships ran until 1970 before they were discontinued.

Venue

The Calcutta South Club was founded in 1920. Its current facilities consist of the six original grass courts, In 1985 the Club built six new clay courts, and in 2004 it added five asphalt-based rubberized hard courts.

References

1. ". EAST INDIA TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS CHRISTMAS DAY PROGRAMME CALCUTTA, Dec. 23. Excellent progress was made in both men's events in the East India Championships at the Calcutta South Club today" (Subscription). Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore). Lahore, Pakistan: British Newspaper Archive. 27 December 1935. p. 16. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
2. "History". aitatennis. New Delhi, India: All India Tennis Association. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
3. Culture, Ministry of, The Handbook of India. Central Publicity, Delhi. Source:https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02481/page/113/mode/2up page.113.