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'{{short description|Tennis club in New York City, USA}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2018}} {{For|the club in Houston, Texas|Westside Tennis Club}} {{Coord|40.719778|-73.848649|region:US_type:landmark|display=title}} {{Infobox venue | stadium_name = Forest Hills Stadium | nickname = | image = West Side Tennis Club 2404826259 9f64dcf9de o.jpg | image_caption = Club in 1912 | fullname = | location = One Tennis Place<br>[[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]], [[Queens]], [[New York (state)|NY]], [[United States|U.S.]] 11375 | coordinates = | broke_ground = | built = | opened = | renovated = | expanded = | demolished = | owner = | operator = | surface = | construction_cost = | architect = | structural engineer = | services engineer = | general_contractor = | project_manager = | main_contractors = | former_names = Forest Hills Tennis Stadium | tenants = | seating_capacity = | dimensions = | scoreboard = | website = {{URL|http://www.foresthillstennis.com/}} }} The '''West Side Tennis Club''' is a private [[tennis]] club located in [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]], a neighborhood in the [[New York City]] [[Borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[Queens]]. The Club has 38 tennis courts in all four surfaces ([[clay court]], [[Har-Tru]], [[grass court]] and [[hardcourt]]), a junior [[Olympic-size swimming pool]] and other amenities. It is the home of the '''Forest Hills Stadium''', a 14,000 seat outdoor tennis stadium and concert venue.<ref name="foresthillsstadium.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.foresthillsstadium.com/history|title=History - Forest Hills Stadium|website=Forest Hills Stadium}}</ref> The club hosted 60 editions of the U.S. National Championships (renamed the [[U.S. Open (tennis)|US Open]] Tennis Championships in 1968), first from 1915 to 1920, and then again from 1924 to 1977. In addition, the finals of the [[Davis Cup]] were held at the club 10 times, more than any other venue. The [[U.S. Pro Tennis Championships|US Pro]] tournament was held at the venue 11 times, and another prominent professional tournament, the [[Tournament of Champions (tennis)|Tournament of Champions]], was held at the venue 3 times. The West Side Tennis Club was the venue of the [[Forest Hills Tennis Classic]], a now-defunct [[Women's Tennis Association|WTA Tour]] Tier IV event, and a men's challenger event. The Open saw some of its biggest moments and changes while at West Side, including the introduction of seedings in 1927, [[tiebreaker]]s in 1970, equal prize money for men and women in 1973, and night play in 1975.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} Currently, the stadium is used as an outdoor concert venue. ==History== [[File:West Side Tennis Club, Queens.jpg|thumb|Entrance]] [[File:Forest Hills Stadium Dartmouth St jeh.jpg|thumb|left|Stadium, late 2011]] The club was founded in 1892 when 13 original members rented land on [[Central Park West]] for three clay courts and a small clubhouse. Ten years later, the land had become too valuable, and the club moved to a site near [[Columbia University]] with room for eight courts. In 1908, the club moved again to a property at 238th Street and Broadway. The new site covered two city blocks and had 12 grass courts and 15 clay courts. The club hosted the International Lawn Tennis Challenge (now known as the [[Davis Cup]]) in [[1911 International Lawn Tennis Challenge|1911]]. With crowds in the thousands, the club leadership realized that it would need to expand to a more permanent location. In 1912, a site in [[Forest Hills, Queens]], was purchased. The signature [[Tudorbethan architecture|Tudor-style]] clubhouse was built the next year. In 1915, the ''United States Lawn Tennis Association National Championship'', later renamed the [[U.S. Open (tennis)|U.S. Open]], moved to West Side. By 1923, the success of the event necessitated the construction of a 14,000-seat horseshoe-shaped stadium that still stands today. The stadium's first event was the final of the [[International Lawn Tennis Challenge]], which saw the U.S. defeat Australia. [[Althea Gibson]] became the first black player to play in a [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] event in 1950 (in 1957 she became the first black player to win the tournament),<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/nyregion/11oldstadium.html|title=Forest Hills Tennis Stadium’s Future Is Debated|first=Fernanda|last=Santos|date=September 10, 2010|via=www.nytimes.com}}</ref> and [[Billie Jean King]] was the first player to win a Grand Slam event with a metal racket in 1967. In 1968, the year of the first televised broadcast of the US Open,<ref name="wnyc2011"/> [[Arthur Ashe]] became the first black man to win a Grand Slam tournament there.<ref name="auto"/> Beginning in 1971 the stadium was home to the annual [[Robert F. Kennedy]] Memorial Tennis Tournament which was a celebrity pro-am for charity featuring the likes of [[Chevy Chase]], [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], [[Carlos Santana]], [[Edward M. Kennedy]], [[Elton John]] and more throughout the decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20064406,00.html|title=Ethel's Tennis Tournament Is a Labor of Love - Vol. 2 No. 9}}</ref> In 1975, the tournament was switched to [[Har-Tru]] clay courts. By 1978, the tournament had outgrown West Side, and the [[United States Tennis Association|USTA]] moved the tournament to the new [[USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center]] in [[Flushing Meadows-Corona Park|Flushing Meadows]] under USTA President [[William Hester]]'s leadership.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|title=Queens Was Burning, Too: The Chaotic Spectacle of the 1977 U.S. Open |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/the-chaotic-spectacle-of-the-1977-us-open.html?pagewanted=all |access-date=September 5, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |date= August 23, 2012 |first=Michael|last= Steinberger|pages=MM34}}</ref> In 2008, the stadium was the site of a women's satellite tournament.<ref name="wnyc2011"/> The [[New York Empire (tennis)|New York Empire]] of [[World TeamTennis]] announced it would play its home matches, coached by [[Patrick McEnroe]], at the stadium beginning with its inaugural [[2016 New York Empire season|2016 season]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wtt.com/page.aspx?article_id=5105|title=Mylan World TeamTennis 2016 Season Includes Return to New York City, Expanded Broadcast Coverage|website=[[World TeamTennis]]|date=February 17, 2016|access-date=June 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606171539/http://www.wtt.com/page.aspx?article_id=5105|archive-date=June 6, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The team relocated to the [[USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center]] for its second season in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/03/07/new-york-empire-world-team-tennis-gigi-fernandez/|title=Schwartz: New York Empire Ready For Improved Second Season In World Team Tennis|date=March 7, 2017}}</ref> ==Forest Hills Stadium== [[File:RARE 1964 beatles poster (4288733615).jpg|thumb|right|Poster for 1964 concerts at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, headlining [[Barbra Streisand]], [[Count Basie]], [[Woody Allen]], [[Johnny Mathis]], [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Peter Nero]] and [[The Beatles]].]] In addition to hosting the main court for tennis championships, the Forest Hills Stadium has been used as a concert venue featuring artists like [[Frank Sinatra]], [[The Supremes]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[The Beatles]], [[Judy Garland]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[The Who]], [[Donna Summer]], [[Brand New (Band)|Brand New]], [[Arctic Monkeys]] and [[Chance the Rapper]], and was the location for the Forest Hills Music Festival.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Forest Hills Stadium|url=http://www.foresthillsstadium.com/|website=Forest Hills Stadium|access-date=April 22, 2016|location=New York|quote=The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand, and Simon & Garfunkel all graced the stage at Forest Hills during its heyday in the 1960s and 70s.}}</ref> Following the 1978 departure of the Open the stadium fell into disrepair, by 2011 it was called a "crumbling ruin" and was denied landmark status by the [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]].<ref name="wnyc2011">{{Cite web| url= http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/net-post/2011/aug/29/ruin-forest/ | title= Ruin in the Forest: A Stadium Once Fit For the US Open Falls Into Disrepair| date=August 29, 2011 | first= Nate |last=Chura | access-date=January 28, 2013}}</ref> The West Side Tennis Club received an offer in 2010 to raze the stadium and replace it with condominiums.<ref>{{cite web | title=U.S. Open Stadium May Go Condo| publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]] | date=August 11, 2010 | url= https://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/11/former-us-open-stadium-may-go-condo/}}</ref> However, in mid-2013, the stadium re-opened as an outdoor concert venue with [[Mumford & Sons]] performing the inaugural concert.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foresthillsstadium.com/the-venue/history/past-shows/|title=Past Shows|website=Forest Hills Stadium|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-13}}</ref> Since then the Forest Hills Stadium has held a regular summer concert series featuring [[Santana (band)|Santana]], [[Zac Brown Band]], [[D'Angelo]], [[Van Morrison]], [[Arctic Monkeys]], and others.<ref name="foresthillsstadium.com"/> It is also the summer home of [[The New York Pops]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newyorkpops.org/the-new-york-pops-announces-new-summer-home-at-forest-hills-stadium |title=Archived copy |access-date=April 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320221515/http://newyorkpops.org/the-new-york-pops-announces-new-summer-home-at-forest-hills-stadium |archive-date=March 20, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The stadium also has a history of use as a filming location. The [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]'' (1951) was filmed in part during the [[1950 Davis Cup]] finals at the West Side Tennis Club on August 25–27, 1950. Several scenes in [[Wes Anderson]]'s ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]'' were filmed in and around the stadium including the "Windswept Fields" meltdown of Richie Tenenbaum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theyear2015.blogspot.com/2009/02/windswept-fields.html|title=the year 2015: windswept fields}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.foresthillstennis.com/ West Side Tennis Club official website] *[http://www.foresthillsstadium.com/ Forest Hills Stadium official website] {{S-start}} {{Succession box | title=[[Davis Cup]]<br /> Final Venue | before=[[Worple Road]], [[London]]<br />[[Comain Cricket Club]], [[Auckland]]<br />[[Kooyong Stadium]], [[Melbourne]]<br />[[White City Stadium (Sydney)|White City Stadium]], [[Sydney]]<br />[[Milton Courts]], [[Brisbane]] | after=[[Double Bay Grounds]], [[Sydney]]<br />[[Germantown Cricket Club]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]]<br />[[White City Stadium (Sydney)|White City Stadium]], [[Sydney]]<br />[[Memorial Drive Park]], [[Adelaide]]<br />[[White City Stadium (Sydney)|White City Stadium]], [[Sydney]] | years=[[1914 International Lawn Tennis Challenge|1914]]<br />[[1921 International Lawn Tennis Challenge|1921]] • [[1922 International Lawn Tennis Challenge|1922]] • [[1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge|1923]]<br />[[1947 Davis Cup|1947]] • [[1948 Davis Cup|1948]] • [[1949 Davis Cup|1949]] • [[1950 Davis Cup|1950]]<br />[[1955 Davis Cup|1955]]<br />[[1959 Davis Cup|1959]] }} {{Succession box | title = Home of the<br />[[U.S. Open (tennis)|U.S. Open]] | before = [[Newport Casino]] ([[1881 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1881]]-[[1914 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1914]])<br />[[Germantown Cricket Club]] ([[1921 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1921]]-[[1923 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1923]]) | after = [[Germantown Cricket Club]] ([[1921 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1921]]-[[1923 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1923]])<br />[[USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center]] ([[1978 U.S. Open (tennis)|1978]]-present) | years = [[1915 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1915]]-[[1920 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1920]]<br />[[1924 U.S. National Championships (tennis)|1924]]-[[1977 U.S. Open (tennis)|1977]] }} {{S-end}} {{NewYorksportsvenues}} [[Category:Forest Hills, Queens]] [[Category:Music venues in New York City]] [[Category:Sports venues in Queens, New York]] [[Category:Tennis venues in New York City]] [[Category:US Open (tennis)]] [[Category:Wightman Cup]] [[Category:1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge]] [[Category:1947 Davis Cup]] [[Category:1948 Davis Cup]] [[Category:1949 Davis Cup]] [[Category:1950 Davis Cup]] [[Category:1955 Davis Cup]] [[Category:1959 Davis Cup]]'