Older Than deck / Events and discoveries
First US tennis championships
First held
1881
Held at Newport, Rhode Island; the tournament is now the US Open.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“Started in 1881 at the Newport Casino, Rhode Island.”United States Tennis Association / US Open: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“On August 31, 1881, the first U.S. National Lawn Tennis Championship was contested at the Newport Casino”International Tennis Hall of Fame: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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