In 1923 Daniel Hanbury founded the "Hanbury Tennis Club" with a historic Club House, opened by the great tennis player Henry Lacoste.
The Alassio International tennis tournament[2] was a combined men's and women's clay court tennis tournament founded in 1925 at Savona, Liguria, Northern Italy.
The tournament was staged until 1940 when it ended due to World War II.
Former winners of the men's singles included; Placido Gaslini (1925), Jacques Brugnon (1929), Pat Hughes (1930), Béla von Kehrling (1932), Giovanni Palmieri (1933–1936), Vojtěch Vodička (1937) and Francesco Romanoni (1940).
It encompasses twelve thousand square meters of greenery surrounding the 7 tennis courts, the elegant colonial-style club house.