Los Angeles has an extraordinary public court infrastructure managed by LA City and LA County Parks, with signature facilities at Griffith Park, Holmby Park, and Rancho Cienega — plus beachside courts in Santa Monica and Venice that are active every single day.
5,800 (10,000 expanded)
UCLA LA Tennis Center Capacity
16
UCLA Men's NCAA Titles
1920
LA Tennis Club Founded
22 hard + 2 clay
Riviera Tennis Club Courts
14 lighted
Cheviot Hills Courts
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Home of the UCLA Bruins; opened May 1984 and hosted the Olympic tennis demonstration event that summer.
Public facility near the Coliseum with multiple hard courts; long-running site for adult leagues and junior programs.
Private Hancock Park club founded in 1920; longtime base of Bill Tilden, Jack Kramer, and the Pacific Southwest Championships.
City of LA public center in West LA with 14 lighted hard courts, popular for evening play and lessons.
1920
Los Angeles Tennis Club incorporated in Hancock Park, with Thomas C. Bundy as first president
1927
Inaugural Pacific Southwest Championships held at LATC, won by Bill Tilden
1984
UCLA's Los Angeles Tennis Center opens and hosts the Summer Olympics tennis demonstration event
2028
Olympic tennis returns to LA, with matches scheduled at the Dignity Health Sports Park tennis stadium in Carson
Mediterranean climate with around 280 sunny days a year, making outdoor play possible in nearly every month.
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