The South of Scotland Championships also known as the South of Scotland Lawn Tennis Championships was a men's and women's
grass court tennis tournament first staged in 1882 at the Beachgrove Grounds,
Moffat,
Dumfriesshire,
Scotland. The championships ran as part of the international worldwide tour until 1967.
History
South of Scotland Championships was first held in the early 1880s on the grass courts of Beechgrove Lawn Tennis Club in Moffat in Southern Scotland. No tournament was held in the years 1895-1907 due to Moffat being the host for the
Scottish Lawn Tennis Championships. The championships ran as part of the international worldwide tour until 1967.
Since no longer a part of the worldwide tennis tour a smaller South of Scotland Championships tournament is still held at Beechgrove Tennis Club in Moffat.
The modern tournament is held on
hard courts
A hardcourt (or hard court) is a surface or floor on which a sport is played, most usually in reference to tennis courts. It is typically made of rigid materials such as asphalt or concrete, and covered with acrylic resins to seal the surface and ...
.
Venue
The grounds at Beechgrove were laid out in 1870. The original Beechgrove Lawn Tennis Club in Moffat was one of the founding members of the
Scottish Lawn Tennis Association
Tennis Scotland is the official governing body of tennis in Scotland. It was founded as the Scottish Lawn Tennis Association (SLTA) in 1895. In 1977 the Scottish Lawn Tennis Association dropped the word 'Lawn' and became the Scottish Tennis Associ ...
(now Tennis Scotland) in 1895.
References
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External links
https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/LTA Clubs: Beechgrove Tennis Club
Defunct tennis tournaments in the United Kingdom
Grass court tennis tournaments
Tennis tournaments in Scotland