Tennis
Hunstanton attracts thousands of people, some from long distances away, during the week of the 17 August, for the ITA Hunstanton Lawn Tennis tournament (the biggest in England after Wimbledon) inaugurated in 1920. All ages can play from the young (Under 8 Round Robin) to the senior veterans. The tournament has been frustrated by rain in recent years. Apart from the tournament, it is a big social event, with many parties often held around the area for all involved, spectators and players. There used to be a skatepark facing the tennis courts, however, this was demolished in the summer of 2011 after years of neglect from the council with a new, much smaller facility replacing it on the boulevard.
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Famous quotes containing the word tennis:
“[My one tennis book] was very, very old. It had a picture of Bill Tilden. I looked at the picture and that was how I learned to hold the racket.”
—Maria Bueno (b. 1939)
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The boneless quality of English conversation, which, so far as I have heard it, is all form and no content. Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)