Hall of Fame Tennis Championships

The Campbell’s Hall of Fame Championships is an international tennis tournament that has been held every year annually since 1976 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island.

It features a 32-player singles draw and a doubles tournament. The tournament is held every year from July 10th to the 16th. Each year that the tournament has been held there is an induction ceremony for the Hall of Fame. The tournament is held on grass courts, and is the last grass court tournament of the season on the ATP tour. The top seed has never won at Newport.

As it is hosted in the week directly after Wimbledon, the tournament tends to get few top players competing in it. In 2006 only seven of the 32 singles competitors were ranked in the world top 100 as of the start of the tournament, and only one of them was in the world top 50: Andy Murray (36), Ivo Karlović (58), Mardy Fish (70), Paul Goldstein (74), Gilles Müller (75), Vincent Spadea (90) and Jürgen Melzer (91).

The International Tennis Hall of Fame today announced that Michael Chang, one of only three American men to capture the French Open singles title in the Open era, has been elected for 2008 Hall of Fame induction. Also elected for 2008 induction, in the Contributor category, are Mark McCormack and Gene Scott, both posthumously. McCormack was a legendary sports executive and the founder of International Management Group (IMG), while Scott was the founder and publisher of the national tennis magazine, Tennis Week.

July 7-13, 2008, see the top men in professional tennis, direct from Wimbledon, compete for the Van Alen Cup and $385,000 in prize money on the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s legendary grass courts.

 

 

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